Murderbot starts to open its mouth to say something commiseratory, but stops and sort of frowns, because. Like.
Klaus's turn to talk about problems, even if its issues echo against those problems so much it could almost cry. Right. Let's...find a way to talk about it without stealing any of the attention.
"And I bet it's hard. When people here see value in you that no one else back home could. When they immediately work from the assumption that you're worthy of respect and caring when you can't even reach that conclusion for yourself through hard logic. They treat you like you're an equal. Right? And you feel like. If you were at all worthy of that. Maybe you'd have had it all along? But you didn't. So you don't. And it hurts. A lot. Right?"
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Klaus's turn to talk about problems, even if its issues echo against those problems so much it could almost cry. Right. Let's...find a way to talk about it without stealing any of the attention.
"And I bet it's hard. When people here see value in you that no one else back home could. When they immediately work from the assumption that you're worthy of respect and caring when you can't even reach that conclusion for yourself through hard logic. They treat you like you're an equal. Right? And you feel like. If you were at all worthy of that. Maybe you'd have had it all along? But you didn't. So you don't. And it hurts. A lot. Right?"