[ the question manages to knock whatever cheer and bubbliness daylight had in that moment. the feelings he feels now are mostly shock and mortification, zipping through his cables with an unpleasant jolt that leave him feeling raw and exposed.
he struggles to find his voice, his vocoder struggling to reset to point where he can speak without static or glitches getting in the way. its difficult. its really, really difficult and he tries all the same because-
(because what? he isn't sure. he tries all the same, regardless.) ]
I’m- I’m not aware of it. I'm not- I'm not from that Earth. We, um, never had anything like that back home.
[ daylight's processor is swimming and it's no longer from his glitches thanks to his earlier attempts to connect with the mass subconscious too. he's trying to comprehend of the idea of a machine war, and a fourteenth one at that. what that must mean for humans. what the must mean for mechanoids and those similar to them. what the earth must be like to go through such an event, seemingly over and over and over again.
some part of him wants to talk about the legacy war. some part of him wants to ask if she and her friend here were okay back at their world, but even daylight knows that's asking for trouble.
no subject
freeze frame. ]
... The 14th Machine War?
[ oh. ]
Oh.
[ the question manages to knock whatever cheer and bubbliness daylight had in that moment. the feelings he feels now are mostly shock and mortification, zipping through his cables with an unpleasant jolt that leave him feeling raw and exposed.
he struggles to find his voice, his vocoder struggling to reset to point where he can speak without static or glitches getting in the way. its difficult. its really, really difficult and he tries all the same because-
(because what? he isn't sure. he tries all the same, regardless.) ]
I’m- I’m not aware of it. I'm not- I'm not from that Earth. We, um, never had anything like that back home.
[ daylight's processor is swimming and it's no longer from his glitches thanks to his earlier attempts to connect with the mass subconscious too. he's trying to comprehend of the idea of a machine war, and a fourteenth one at that. what that must mean for humans. what the must mean for mechanoids and those similar to them. what the earth must be like to go through such an event, seemingly over and over and over again.
some part of him wants to talk about the legacy war. some part of him wants to ask if she and her friend here were okay back at their world, but even daylight knows that's asking for trouble.
the most he can say now is a quiet, ] I’m sorry.