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*turns to you*
Helping, Time Friend. Sreig is sorry for bringing your sister into this…
*clenches my fist*
And Sreig must finish a job that he couldn’t do since the beginning.

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Can’t reveal everything! Otherwise it wouldn’t be a surprise!

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Again, I would like to understand the scope of that limitation. The more I interact, the less I will be able to remove.

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Inner workings of the elements and very specific locations and bits of history that I will go out of my way to make sure you stay away from. I’d say it’s unlikely you learn more unless you go poking around when you shouldn’t.

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Are you certain there will be a need for any adjustment?

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The one bit for sure. As of right now. That’s it.

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Simple enough. Then I suppose we wait.

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Mhm… Say, what did you mean earlier about them not telling you the whole truth? Was something they said a lie, or were they just holding info back?

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It would be difficult to ascertain whether what they told me was false, but there is certainly more to this story that was deliberately withheld. Details that would have been useful to me.

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Why would they lie? They don’t seem like bad people, but I dunno, if they were doing that, surely it was to some sort of benefit overall?

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I suppose I have no way of knowing.
*Chuckles*
At least three entities in that room were seriously malfunctioning, and I was only given the opportunity to repair one.

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Were they all artificial? Also, are you among that number, given your current state?

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Mmm... “artificial” carries with it a certain connotation. They were all digital, and I am not among those malfunctioning. I would also be considered a quasi-mechanical hybrid rather than a digital entity.

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Sure, but malfunctioning could be something that applies to you in such a state, maybe.

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Certainly. Fortunately, my devices are reading as normal.

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Hm. But you decided it was best to help them anyway?

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Of course. I built Melody—I couldn’t afford to allow her to self-destruct.

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Does she still provide you anything? Or is it more that you care about her like a daughter or something?

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Ah, daughter would be an overstatement. I do have a research investment into her hybrid soul.

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So you still, um, monitor her, I guess?