You're annoying. [She mutters this under her breath.] So you've got that in common.
[What a jerk. But she's listening, for all her prickly surliness, and what she is struck with is not necessarily anger, or annoyance this time — she's honestly confused. She can't remember the last time another android had expressed even an offhand interest in her well-being. Those machines masquerading as androids in the city above them did not count, as far as she was concerned.
The androids from her world, in contrast, were hell-bent on killing her. So there was that.]
Why do you care?
[It comes out defensively, but she doesn't necessarily mean it to be, this time. Sorry, Connor.]
no subject
[What a jerk. But she's listening, for all her prickly surliness, and what she is struck with is not necessarily anger, or annoyance this time — she's honestly confused. She can't remember the last time another android had expressed even an offhand interest in her well-being. Those machines masquerading as androids in the city above them did not count, as far as she was concerned.
The androids from her world, in contrast, were hell-bent on killing her. So there was that.]
Why do you care?
[It comes out defensively, but she doesn't necessarily mean it to be, this time. Sorry, Connor.]