The disclaimer is accepted. The blame... the blame has been logged already, so many times and in so many ways. Rinzler has failed the beta far too often. But that doesn't make it acceptable to add another section to the list.
"Repair: valid." A beat, a pause, hesitation and the crawling, impossible acknowledgement of what he's said. Clu assigns validity, not—
Don't process. Don't loop. There's a quiet, burning fury lodged deep in his root code, and Rinzler clings to it, because he can't stop now; he promised—
"Frisk too." It blurts out, harsh and a little sick. He knows what happened. What they'd done to themself. They needed help.
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"Repair: valid." A beat, a pause, hesitation and the crawling, impossible acknowledgement of what he's said. Clu assigns validity, not—
Don't process. Don't loop. There's a quiet, burning fury lodged deep in his root code, and Rinzler clings to it, because he can't stop now; he promised—
"Frisk too." It blurts out, harsh and a little sick. He knows what happened. What they'd done to themself. They needed help.
Still.
"Not the rest."