"Is it enjoying the ride if you don't know you're on one? None of us knew." That'd been the point, the whole fucking point, keeping them in the dark, poking around in their brains and playing. Seeing what happened. Scientific AI and Social experimentation with untested tech and-
Old resentments rise up like bile and are swallowed down just as quickly; he's got no time for that.
The bit about the firefight- he'd heard. Vague nonsense mentions, Tex said something at one time on the way out but he'd been deep in the engine room by the, elbow deep in systems, trying to make a mess. A distraction. Trying to secure their exit in every underhanded way he could possibly think of and in the end not a lick of it mattered. None of it had.
Not a goddamn thing.
"Gabe-" What do you say to that? What does he say to this? "Come back to your habitat, okay? Rest up. It's safe here."
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Old resentments rise up like bile and are swallowed down just as quickly; he's got no time for that.
The bit about the firefight- he'd heard. Vague nonsense mentions, Tex said something at one time on the way out but he'd been deep in the engine room by the, elbow deep in systems, trying to make a mess. A distraction. Trying to secure their exit in every underhanded way he could possibly think of and in the end not a lick of it mattered. None of it had.
Not a goddamn thing.
"Gabe-" What do you say to that? What does he say to this? "Come back to your habitat, okay? Rest up. It's safe here."