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The only emotion that remained in his being was a hollow devotion that answered to Subspace and Subspace only- not out of the will in his own heart, but brought upon by lines of code that puppeteer his body.
That, and what Subspace considered to be a sufficient amount of fear carefully refined to draw out submission under the threat of punishment and nothing more.
The name 'Coil' does not evoke anything within himself; it slides over his mind like a single droplet amongst a stream of thoughts: small, meaningless.