[ Maybe she’s about to drop the subject? Simon is too stubborn a denialmancer to accept that his days hiding this are probably numbered if 2B’s Pod can tell at whatever the scanning-buddy equivalent of a “glance” is. And could this whole time, presumably. But it’s not wrong to omit that, right? Her life is better if she doesn’t know he’s a cybernetically-enhanced corpse in a diving suit with a computer brain. ]
...I’ll keep it in mind.
[ spoiler: no he won’t. He walks around her in an anxious semicircle, closing the distance he created, fingers curled and tensed at his sides. There’s no real substitute for jumping out of your skin. Pacing is the only alternative, though he meets her eyes (well, you know, kinda) then. ]
Good to see you found Pod. [ and when he says that, he remembers what 9S said when he mentioned 2B’s Pod’s absence, the cryptic answer that it’s already been here. It’s like a jigsaw puzzle that Simon totally doesn’t want to put together because he can see what it looks like when it’s done. ]
no subject
...I’ll keep it in mind.
[ spoiler: no he won’t. He walks around her in an anxious semicircle, closing the distance he created, fingers curled and tensed at his sides. There’s no real substitute for jumping out of your skin. Pacing is the only alternative, though he meets her eyes (well, you know, kinda) then. ]
Good to see you found Pod. [ and when he says that, he remembers what 9S said when he mentioned 2B’s Pod’s absence, the cryptic answer that it’s already been here. It’s like a jigsaw puzzle that Simon totally doesn’t want to put together because he can see what it looks like when it’s done. ]