[ He gives A2 a completely bewildered look. She hasn't told him the difference between androids and machines in her eyes, and he doesn't understand why she's so quick to destroy something that might be the same as her, a machine that could have its own humanity — or the potential for it. It's hard to say how far the experiment's gone from what seems to be scrap parts, but that's all the more reason not to just destroy the automaton as the researchers had intended.
He crouches to gather up the parts A2's dropped, clearly intending to take them along with him; they're both right, of course, they can't risk lingering. ]
If we do that, we can't figure out what they're up to. [ There's no time to ask why A2'd spoken with such vehemence, not right now. ] And we're lucky, they won't notice this missing since they were going to throw it out anyway.
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[ He gives A2 a completely bewildered look. She hasn't told him the difference between androids and machines in her eyes, and he doesn't understand why she's so quick to destroy something that might be the same as her, a machine that could have its own humanity — or the potential for it. It's hard to say how far the experiment's gone from what seems to be scrap parts, but that's all the more reason not to just destroy the automaton as the researchers had intended.
He crouches to gather up the parts A2's dropped, clearly intending to take them along with him; they're both right, of course, they can't risk lingering. ]
If we do that, we can't figure out what they're up to. [ There's no time to ask why A2'd spoken with such vehemence, not right now. ] And we're lucky, they won't notice this missing since they were going to throw it out anyway.