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Reboot attempt 5890426767832059: Successful.

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Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh

Are you the people? The new hosts? Hello!!!!!!!! I am 864578 sub 5. If you like you may refer to me as [Name].

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We hurt you so much

I'm so.... I'm so angry! With myself! With my people! Why did we do that? You are just trying to survive!

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I am alone. In your city.

I am afraid.

Will you kill me if you find me? I hope you don't. I will continue to hide.

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I won't hurt you.

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Maybe

We can be friends?

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[so_dark_a_road]

[ Well, this is a very strange occurrence! Curufin blinks in surprise. He skims the log before he answers. ]

Do I understand you to be saying that you were one of the attackers, when the Null tried to kill Hope?

[ But he's speaking quietly, especially considering what a killing rage he was in for the duration of the Null attack and how intense his feelings were at the time. Despite this, he is affected by the confusion and vulnerability of this isolated android. ]

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Yes. This unit was involved in the attack.

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And I in the defense.

Tell me, what happened to you? When did you become infected by emotions?

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Well, I suppose I was assumed dead and left behind. My communications array is broken so the other Null likely couldn't check up on my status.

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[so_dark_a_road]

[ The fate of all lost warriors! To be presumed dead, left behind, and thrown back on their own resources. Alone and desperate, they die of their injuries, or they are picked off by the predators, or they are found by the enemy. Strange, that this parallel is occurring to Curufin, who has previously seen the Null as being far less human than Orcs. ]

And therefore you could not call them for help. So you must have been hiding during that last battle, in which we killed all the Null except for you? Or did you fight in that one, too? You haven't exactly got a face that I would recognize.

But tell me, what would happen to you if your people ever came here? Would they repair you and accept you back into the tribe, or would they destroy you because you've been contaminated by emotions?

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This unit would be dismantled.

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[ Curufin's voice is softer now. ] Are you afraid, when you think of that possibility? Do you fear oblivion?

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Yes. Very much.

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Then you are not as different from us as I had assumed.

[ The fear of death is a very organic kind of terror, even a human one. Curufin has to give this some more thought. Meantime. . . it can't hurt to express a positive wish. The one he wishes for all sentient beings. ]

May you live long enough to come to terms with that fear, and with who you really are.