You flew? [ Almost every word of that statement begs for clarification, and it earns Shiro a stare. Magic and technology coexisting Simon gets, in theory, at least, but in a body? A partially robotic one, judging from the arm? Without somebody like Astoria making it that way, injecting magic into an existence that functioned on science before? ]
What are you- [ If he’d thought that inquiry through better, he would’ve phrased it differently. ‘What are you’ is one of his least favorite questions, and while he usually manages to avoid it, pre-Armageddon stress and the sheer foreignness of Shiro’s explanation have botched his filter.
So he gets it out, but backtracks, ] I mean, a ‘living machine’- like a cyborg?
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What are you- [ If he’d thought that inquiry through better, he would’ve phrased it differently. ‘What are you’ is one of his least favorite questions, and while he usually manages to avoid it, pre-Armageddon stress and the sheer foreignness of Shiro’s explanation have botched his filter.
So he gets it out, but backtracks, ] I mean, a ‘living machine’- like a cyborg?