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    You did try to tell them.

    Of course you did. You couldn’t help it. The very first time you’d come back, you’d looked into their faces and burst into tears. They’d crowded around you, cooing and worried, as you curled into a ball and sobbed so hard you could barely breathe. Of course they wanted to know what was wrong; of course the truth slipped out; of course they thought they could try and fix it.

    [A prequel-ish? Of sorts? to SASASA:P, exploring What Happened In Earlier loops to convince Siffrin that they can't let their friends know about the loop 👀]

    [EDIT: Now totally non-canonical after the release of In Stars and Time 😂]

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    23 Sep 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 53

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    It’s not that I wasn’t curious, and it’s not like there wasn’t a more logical part of me that knew that this was terrible security procedure, even if I didn’t hear a peep from risk assessment (what else is new?). But on a deeper level, I knew there wasn’t any risk.

    I wanted ART to prove it to me.

    I wanted to go in blind and know that it wouldn’t hurt me, and that it would stop if I asked it to. I wanted to let ART in and not have to think about it.

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    ART takes Murderbot up on an offer to plug into each other's systems.

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    22 Sep 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 50

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    ART bot nodded slowly as I finished speaking. An amusement sigil flashed in its eyes.

    “Pretty good,” it said, “but I could do better.”

    “Hold on,” Tara said then. “I'm not sure I explained the–”

    ART bot sat up in its chair and opened its mouth anyway.

    “I feel–”

    The end of that statement had led to the creation of the second rule.

    Rule #2 ART and Murderbot are not allowed to utilize ‘I statements’ during their sessions, (or preferably ever).

    Oh well.

    It had been fun while it lasted.

    A SecUnit and a spaceship walk into couples therapy. Neither of them really want to be there but both of them are. Apparently that’s where you get sent after you have a big fight that scares the humans. Now it's just a matter of figuring out if they’d like to actually fix their problems and admit to having emotions, or if they’d like to make things worse.
    Make things worse seems like the obvious choice…right?

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    22 Sep 2025

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    Unit Communication Log:
    SecUnit Two: Atmospheric conditions optimal.
    SecUnit One: ...
    SecUnit One: Indeed.

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    20 Sep 2025

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    17 Sep 2025