Just as well that John gives up on the handshake, because SecUnit has its still-normal hand curled around its front now, holding the sleeve of its jacket in place despite the torn fabric.]
Right.
[Maybe it can get away with that? It has to run the mental calculus - on the one hand, weirdly optimistic human who hasn't seen its energy weapons and doesn't seem like the type to know what to do without getting a name in return, if that introduction says anything. On the other it's already identified itself as a SecUnit to others here, and it doesn't, if it's being honest, want to be stuck playing human as Eden if it's only going to have to explain later.]
SecUnit works. Are you good at it? [Collecting information.]
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Just as well that John gives up on the handshake, because SecUnit has its still-normal hand curled around its front now, holding the sleeve of its jacket in place despite the torn fabric.]
Right.
[Maybe it can get away with that? It has to run the mental calculus - on the one hand, weirdly optimistic human who hasn't seen its energy weapons and doesn't seem like the type to know what to do without getting a name in return, if that introduction says anything. On the other it's already identified itself as a SecUnit to others here, and it doesn't, if it's being honest, want to be stuck playing human as Eden if it's only going to have to explain later.]
SecUnit works. Are you good at it? [Collecting information.]