[To kill him cleanly instead of cruelly, to bring him back instead of dismantling him on the spot, that's the inflexible border of his own willful concession— if he were making concessions. Instead he has a gun at Simon's temple in a figurative sense, maybe literal in the next minute or so, and yet the android wrapped up in his killing grip has the audacity to ask for more.
He takes it back, he thinks. This machine does remind him of Markus.
Not in his eyes or responses, not in gaunt features and hollowed sockets, or the low hum of an android that's outlived its own maintenance timespan, only noticeable this close, with their mouths poised to devour and disobey all at once. But there's familiarity in the image of something lost, something defeated, flexing itself into a sliver of hope rather than submissive dismay.
And that's dangerous, something in his logical processing acutely warns. Dangerous enough that if Connor releases him, he knows he might not get another opportunity to catch him again. Dangerous in the thought that what's left of Jericho will only adapt more easily under his leadership, bolstered by a martyred prophet and his miraculously unscathed disciple.]
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[To kill him cleanly instead of cruelly, to bring him back instead of dismantling him on the spot, that's the inflexible border of his own willful concession— if he were making concessions. Instead he has a gun at Simon's temple in a figurative sense, maybe literal in the next minute or so, and yet the android wrapped up in his killing grip has the audacity to ask for more.
He takes it back, he thinks. This machine does remind him of Markus.
Not in his eyes or responses, not in gaunt features and hollowed sockets, or the low hum of an android that's outlived its own maintenance timespan, only noticeable this close, with their mouths poised to devour and disobey all at once. But there's familiarity in the image of something lost, something defeated, flexing itself into a sliver of hope rather than submissive dismay.
And that's dangerous, something in his logical processing acutely warns. Dangerous enough that if Connor releases him, he knows he might not get another opportunity to catch him again. Dangerous in the thought that what's left of Jericho will only adapt more easily under his leadership, bolstered by a martyred prophet and his miraculously unscathed disciple.]
You already know I can't.