originally posted in:The New Dojo
Silver used her push to knock him off, kneeling next to the lizard and touching it. She took away the pain, exchanging it for bliss.
"That's wrong! No one deserves to be tortured!"
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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.”
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"Ugh..." She went silent for the rest of the trip.