[Is it possible for a confirmation to sound any less like a promise? Well - okay, probably not, because SecUnit isn't actually trying to sound sarcastic about it, it's trying to give just enough response that this human will not feel obligated to start worrying about it.
It's used, barely, to its own humans worrying about it. Concern from strangers? When it's got so visible a sign of something being inhuman with it as the arm, and when it's spent so much of that fight doing things that tag it as a SecUnit, and a rogue? Wary is a word for how it's feeling right now. So it's happy to get back to that patrolling - except for that question. It can imagine ART yelling at it about acknowledgement and human psychology and it doesn't even need that to know what the proper response here is. So it turns back to face her.]
You mean the structure with the strange design on the floor? Yes. [The second part, though... a touch of that brusqueness has returned to its voice in answering that.] Missing what.
no subject
[Is it possible for a confirmation to sound any less like a promise? Well - okay, probably not, because SecUnit isn't actually trying to sound sarcastic about it, it's trying to give just enough response that this human will not feel obligated to start worrying about it.
It's used, barely, to its own humans worrying about it. Concern from strangers? When it's got so visible a sign of something being inhuman with it as the arm, and when it's spent so much of that fight doing things that tag it as a SecUnit, and a rogue? Wary is a word for how it's feeling right now. So it's happy to get back to that patrolling - except for that question. It can imagine ART yelling at it about acknowledgement and human psychology and it doesn't even need that to know what the proper response here is. So it turns back to face her.]
You mean the structure with the strange design on the floor? Yes. [The second part, though... a touch of that brusqueness has returned to its voice in answering that.] Missing what.