for a moment, his own certainty wavers. has the lie become truth? have his words taken on a new meaning? is she really capable...? he can see the flow of od within her circuits start, manifest half-heartedly, and for a moment he feels- trepidation. uncertainty. hope.
and then it dies away, blocked by circuits that cannot hold anything. of course. a lie is a lie, no matter what it might seem. it's relieving, a bit, just as much as it's crushing. ]
...you've already found them. [ the quiet admiration in his voice doesn't require a single bit of acting. ] But I'm not seeing anything flow through them. You never activated them before summoning me, did you?
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for a moment, his own certainty wavers. has the lie become truth? have his words taken on a new meaning? is she really capable...? he can see the flow of od within her circuits start, manifest half-heartedly, and for a moment he feels- trepidation. uncertainty. hope.
and then it dies away, blocked by circuits that cannot hold anything. of course. a lie is a lie, no matter what it might seem. it's relieving, a bit, just as much as it's crushing. ]
...you've already found them. [ the quiet admiration in his voice doesn't require a single bit of acting. ] But I'm not seeing anything flow through them. You never activated them before summoning me, did you?