serialskiller: (exasperated)
SecUnit (Murderbot) ([personal profile] serialskiller) wrote in [community profile] come_sailaway 2022-12-07 08:42 am (UTC)

"Safe."

There's initially a bit of a scoff contained in that word, and then its expression shifts to something pensive, as it thinks about falling asleep on the pool deck at night while a blind girl listens for approaching footsteps. And about another girl falling asleep on its shoulder during the teen party. And who the first person it told Jinx was gone was, and why. And a young fella who called it their best friend, not asking questions when asked to sit in front of it, facing away, so it can give him a hug with absolutely no risk of eye contact.

There's a shuddery slow exhalation. It is very, very much having a feeling. One that makes its eyes sting until it scrubs at them with the back of its wrist.

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