[It's too damn familiar. The expectation that they'll work together until they won't. The uneasy alliance. Order the Meta around like a fucking dog, like a wind-up toy, like it won't all go sideways at any moment. Like it's talking to something that can be controlled, and not a live wire ready to discharge at any fucking moment.]
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[It's too damn familiar. The expectation that they'll work together until they won't. The uneasy alliance. Order the Meta around like a fucking dog, like a wind-up toy, like it won't all go sideways at any moment. Like it's talking to something that can be controlled, and not a live wire ready to discharge at any fucking moment.]
[They're tolerating him. Tolerating.]
[He can't be gone. (Don't let him be gone.)]
[Swallow.]
[Where do you go from here?]
You just...get here? [Such a kind word for it.]