[Performance reliability right now is - well, it's shit, frankly. 79%, because some of its joints are still stiff and because of the emotional... whatever. Not breakdown, okay, but it's not doing great after another memory insertion and talking about it's fucking feelings and the belated realization that it could have been left behind, and that the humans would have been right to do it.
It's because they don't know what you are.
So yeah, it's having a great time patrolling, which it probably shouldn't be doing. Except it's still got enough attention to spare to notice the flicker of movement out among the trees, and to go completely still. The show playback shuts down, the background processes halt, and suddenly its head is full of calculations. The amount of charge before it has to shut down if it fires its energy weapons, the possible dimensions of the flash its camera caught of bone and rot. And underneath that all -
no subject
It's because they don't know what you are.
So yeah, it's having a great time patrolling, which it probably shouldn't be doing. Except it's still got enough attention to spare to notice the flicker of movement out among the trees, and to go completely still. The show playback shuts down, the background processes halt, and suddenly its head is full of calculations. The amount of charge before it has to shut down if it fires its energy weapons, the possible dimensions of the flash its camera caught of bone and rot. And underneath that all -
Shit, shit, shit. Why now?]