originally posted in:The New Dojo
"You're welcome..."
She rolled her eyes, just standing back now.
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“You’ll be getting paid our agreed amount. One third. Plus you’re forgetting bonuses if you do a good job.”
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"Bonuses? Huh. I'll try it, but anymore terrible...horrible things and I seek out Nat."
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“Hey, upside is that you get to spend a little more time with Rian during work.”
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"That's true." Silver nodded. "I can keep her company more."
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“She really needs it. She always bothers me about me getting in trouble, will be good to get her off my back.”
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"Maybe you could be nicer to her..." Silver mumbled, walking.
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“She’s a robot. Not like she has actual feelings. Just lines of code.”
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"Oh f*ck off. She's sentient. She has feelings."
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“You don’t get it. I coded her. She doesn’t have sentience. It’s not part of her code.”
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"But...I could've....Then why not just change the code?"
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“Because she seems to be trying to develop free will and I don’t want to ruin it.”
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"So she is alive? I'm confused..."
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“She’s alive, yes, but not sentience. But she’s developing it.”
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"O-Oh, okay. That's different, I guess?"
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“Very much so. She doesn’t know that she is alive.”
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"Huh. I might try to help her then..."
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“Go right ahead. You’ll be paying for her in a while anyways.”
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"Then she'll actually be free. Free from your anger issues and stupidity."
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“Stupidity? Girl, if you think I’m stupid you’ve got another thing coming. Let’s take earlier, for example, when I was saving you. That took careful word choice to try to intimidate them, and a lot of bluffing.”
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"Bluffing that could've easily backfired if they weren't in a place where gods walk around."
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“Exactly. I knew my surroundings. I’m a bounty hunter, half my job is getting to know the area around my target. That included Dojoville.”
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"Takes ten seconds to notice you can get away with that, but okay."
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“Yeah, but who of these jackasses will actually think of that?”
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"Can we just get back to the ship and fly home?"
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“We’ve been walking the whole time, so yes. Yes we can. We have about another mile.”