She took the information about memories in stride. Mostly she was just relieved she wouldn’t have to explain all of that again.
“That’s the gist of it. The Cliffnotes version, if you will.” Lark took a moment more to continue responding.
“I was… we were built to kill people. Mostly high up and powerful people. For any reason we were given. Political gain, economic competition, start conflict, silencing certain voices…
It didn’t quite work the way our creators wanted. We were good at it, sure, but they made the mistake of trying to make three at once. And they hadn’t worked out any potential issues. They lost control of the oldest one. Raven. He… we… fled the facility. There were casualties.
Two of us hid in a bunker. That was the place with the explosives in the walls. We were there for several years, laying low to avoid detection. But then we were tracked down and…” Lark shook her head. “Now it’s just me.”
[He snapped his fingers at that.]
Siam: You know, so many of us have been built in conflict with humans rather than harmony that it’s easy to forget if that was the case, or if we were just thinking of ourselves.
Siam: In theory that should bother me more, I suppose, but it doesn’t really; it just makes it familiar, honestly.
Siam: I’m sorry that you were in hiding all that time and lost your youngest brother. He didn’t seem too bad.
[He felt he should have made more of an effort to look for her during those years where they lost contact, but…]
Siam: -Somewhat distantly- Time can be unkind to the best of us, let alone the rest of us.
[…what could he have done, really? It had been all he could do to keep Cardinal from falling apart at the seams for most of it.]
Siam: I did miss you, you know?
Siam: You’ve always been so kind to me.
Siam: I’m sorry that I haven’t really done much or been very interesting. You mean more than I’ve really expressed.
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