[L was far slower to arrive, partly because his ability to physically reach the house was hindered more than an android's designed for active law enforcement, and because his intuition has always been almost unfairly keen. That wrenching, twisting, breaking feeling could only really mean one thing, and if his legs became the wind it wouldn't be enough to help matters in the least. It couldn't stop what had already been done.
The characteristically stoic man is quiet as he approaches. Connor will hear him when his leather boots that appear too heavy for his spindly frame scuff against shards and splinters of glass littering the floor.]
Yes.
[His features are dull, blank, lifeless and drained. Expressing anguish is beyond him; he shuts down, in times like these, withdrawing into himself, and now there's no one here to tell him how to extract and connect from the inside.]
It... hurt, didn't it.
[A passionless observation, all things considered. Both because accessing the pain only promises to hurt, and because the SQUIP's decline and illness had made it feel like it had been gone for quite some time, already. It never truly recovered, never truly accepted its new and inflicted humanity. Did some arbiter in this strange universe decide that only one fate truly befitted it, after such a loss?]
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The characteristically stoic man is quiet as he approaches. Connor will hear him when his leather boots that appear too heavy for his spindly frame scuff against shards and splinters of glass littering the floor.]
Yes.
[His features are dull, blank, lifeless and drained. Expressing anguish is beyond him; he shuts down, in times like these, withdrawing into himself, and now there's no one here to tell him how to extract and connect from the inside.]
It... hurt, didn't it.
[A passionless observation, all things considered. Both because accessing the pain only promises to hurt, and because the SQUIP's decline and illness had made it feel like it had been gone for quite some time, already. It never truly recovered, never truly accepted its new and inflicted humanity. Did some arbiter in this strange universe decide that only one fate truly befitted it, after such a loss?]