[It's what users do. It's maybe, even, what's supposed to happen. But there's one very major error in the other program's calculations.]
Not like you.
[Calla can look away. Rinzler keeps staring. His voice (his) is almost flat, but there's a clipped, abrasive shadow to his sound that seeps through every syllable.]
Not my system. Not my admins.
[They never were. Not from the start. The enforcer's noise rattles out for an uneven beat or two. Struggling—if not remotely with the sentiment. No, it's speech. Selecting words. Ordering the string. For once, in something, Rinzler knows himself, and Rinzler has the capability to say it. Those instances are valuable enough to get it right.]
no subject
Not like you.
[Calla can look away. Rinzler keeps staring. His voice (his) is almost flat, but there's a clipped, abrasive shadow to his sound that seeps through every syllable.]
Not my system. Not my admins.
[They never were. Not from the start. The enforcer's noise rattles out for an uneven beat or two. Struggling—if not remotely with the sentiment. No, it's speech. Selecting words. Ordering the string. For once, in something, Rinzler knows himself, and Rinzler has the capability to say it. Those instances are valuable enough to get it right.]
I won't derezz to save them work.