[ Root can read a lot between the lines here. She's smart, and more than that, she's been a hacker since she was ten. She knows the kinds of secrets people keep beneath the party line, the awful truths that belie all the death and suffering that go on to keep the fiction going. It's easy to see where A2 would be fighting an endless, pointless war she has no expectation of ever ending, against an adversary that had surpassed her in the ways that matter.

All military, hm? That gives her some other clues about A2's function and purpose. Root isn't military but she deeply cares for some people who are. Critical as she is of hierarchical quasi-governmental operations, she's come to a better understanding of their draw through knowing Shaw and Reese. ]

So it's primarily a difference of intent in your creation? It must be very strange for you, being here, [ Root comments with palpable sympathy. She deliberately moves the conversation to present tense. ]

Suddenly having actual humans to defend and all. [ Return was such an interesting word choice. ]