computation: (root309)
Root ([personal profile] computation) wrote 2024-12-25 11:33 pm (UTC)

Like I said, [ she murmurs, ] a straight line.

[ She wishes it were that piercingly simple to her. But maybe it's like how it helps Shaw to hear what she believes about the simulation; maybe Root can let it help her to know that Shaw loves her and doesn't have any regrets. She can hold that to herself as a lodestone.

Normally she's not so quick to cry, and hearing Shaw acknowledge it out loud makes a few things fall into place. Matter of factly: ]
I'm getting more disoriented the longer we talk. It's probably the simulation enforcing the sentencing conditions.

[ Which means she needs to leave. ]

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