[It's not clear whether ARUM-25 has any sort of synthetic equivalent to nerves, or if they're so deadened by time and age that whatever they may have possessed that would detect a comforting touch has long since gone grim and inactive. But either way, they fall silent, perhaps mercifully so.]
[They do not wish to see the components of their brethren at this time.]
[They'll stay silent for this process, for however long they can.]
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[They do not wish to see the components of their brethren at this time.]
[They'll stay silent for this process, for however long they can.]