Sorry to belabor the point, but it was true. Epsilon might have been an AI, might not have been a whole one at that, but he sure as shit was one of them. And maybe that's what it was so hard to let go; they hadn't gone through this before, not an equal. Not one of them.
But he knew what she meant, too. And that...that deserved recognition.
"It was stupid. He was all so fucking pointless and stupid and--" The heavy sigh slid from his lips as he turned look at her. "I probably would've done the same fucking thing if I had been him. We're all stupid enough to die for each other."
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Sorry to belabor the point, but it was true. Epsilon might have been an AI, might not have been a whole one at that, but he sure as shit was one of them. And maybe that's what it was so hard to let go; they hadn't gone through this before, not an equal. Not one of them.
But he knew what she meant, too. And that...that deserved recognition.
"It was stupid. He was all so fucking pointless and stupid and--" The heavy sigh slid from his lips as he turned look at her. "I probably would've done the same fucking thing if I had been him. We're all stupid enough to die for each other."
And there was a pause.
"Well, most of us."