[He glances upwards at the sound and… Has to make an effort not to visibly react at his newest visitor.
Soft, almost child-like– the voice of Eliza Cassan, Picus TV's ever-present news anchor, immediately rises to the forefront of his mind. She'd turned out to be an extremely advanced AI; it's hard not to associate the idea with what he's looking at right now. Adam gets a sudden, crazy urge to reach out and try and sweep an arm through the body in front of him – prove to himself that he's speaking to a hologram – but stamps it down.
It takes him an extra half-second to stop staring, shake his head to dispel the confused readings from his retinal implants, and respond.] It'd probably seem less intimidating if I wasn't.
[Not that he looks like someone capable of being intimidated at all – there's a purposefully casual sound to it. He's certainly keeping his voice admirably level, given his shock from earlier.]
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Soft, almost child-like– the voice of Eliza Cassan, Picus TV's ever-present news anchor, immediately rises to the forefront of his mind. She'd turned out to be an extremely advanced AI; it's hard not to associate the idea with what he's looking at right now. Adam gets a sudden, crazy urge to reach out and try and sweep an arm through the body in front of him – prove to himself that he's speaking to a hologram – but stamps it down.
It takes him an extra half-second to stop staring, shake his head to dispel the confused readings from his retinal implants, and respond.] It'd probably seem less intimidating if I wasn't.
[Not that he looks like someone capable of being intimidated at all – there's a purposefully casual sound to it. He's certainly keeping his voice admirably level, given his shock from earlier.]