[color=f49ac2][center][h3]Smudge Pixelby[/h3][/center][/color]

[color=f49ac2][i]"STOP!"[/i][/color] Mergoux's early warning momentarily forgotten, IA-920 stepped back involuntarily when she stepped forward, pushed, as it were, by the tension in the bowstring. Its transformation was complete, now, and as voices rose the first snaps of electicity began to flash across its new face. [color=f49ac2][i]"STOP IT!"[/i][/color]

Exposed veins twitched. 

[color=f49ac2]"I am not a [i]thing![/i] I'm a [i]girl![/i] I'm a [i]person![/i] And I'm [i]sorry[/i] your day was bad, but guess what? That doesn't give you the right to bully me like s-some kid in a playground! But I guess [i]you[/i] wouldn't understand because [i]you've[/i] always been lucky enough to pass for human, huh, half-elf?"[/color] IA-920's eye bored straight into Mergoux's, huge and eldritch. [color=f49ac2]"Or m-[i]maybe[/i] you're just some [i]sick bitch[/i] who doesn't even care about people getting treated like [i]shit[/i] so long as it's not [i]you![/i] So go ahead! F-fine! Shoot me! I guess that's just who you are! A sadistic, racist monster who abuses children for fun! [i]Whatever![/i]"[/color]

Pause.

[color=f49ac2]"I can't bring him back,"[/color] said Smudge. She was too tired to lie, or be angry. [color=f49ac2]"I c-can't access that kind of data, or load a human being. If souls are real, his is gone. He's dead. I just saved him."[/color] The eye blinked wetly and she wiped it awkwardly with a sleeve. [color=f49ac2]"Maybe one day I'll be able to archive him somehow. But it's not my fault he's dead, so stop looking at me like I can fix that."[/color]

[@Overlord Thraka][@Lmpkio]