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she’s . . confused ˏ it becoming more difficult to tell what side he was on . was he with 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐌 .ᐣ or not associated at all . . .ᐣ ﹚
‶ i’m .. awfully confused ˏ‶ she murmured ˏ voice sounding oddly —
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He had walked almost a dozen or so paces before abruptly stopping when she spoke again. The massive shotgun slung over his back was grabbed.
"I know."
The sounds of it being reloaded echoed while he looked back at her.
"I'm not expecting them to cooperate."
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⠀ ⠀ — that lives here . i am not effected by sickness or hunger ˏ yet i can’t deny this .. 𝓭𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐫 . ’
she knows frankie would disagree . she knows she 𝙙𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙢𝙨 of doing something more ˏ and she deeply admires that ˏ but she doesn’t —
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⠀ ⠀ — but continued typing with her hand .
‘ i don’t know why ˏ but i’ve had this feeling of 𝓱opelessness for a long time ˏ to the point that it feels like an old friend . and i’m not even the one getting h ’
she backspaces .
‘i’m not even a human —
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⠀ ⠀ ﹙ she made a face upon seeing the expression he held for her in response to her words .
she knew the expression well . she did not know 𝘸𝘩𝘺 she did ˏ but the fact that he managed it so well scared her . but ˏ she would not —
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﹙ sonic would eventually look up from having his eyes locked down towards his legs ,̲ reading what the android had said . a light shrug of the shoulders followed after . ﹚
“ you’re right ,̲ i’m not the type to get really angry at just 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 … ❯
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⠀ —
‘ i am really glad you’d like to help ,’ she starts , ‘ and i really hate to doubt you , but i really don’t know if there’s 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 you can do for this world .’
she brought her knees to her chest and hugged them with her clawed arm ˏ —
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⠀ ⠀ — things in a relatively normal distance .
hardly anyone was out ˏ but people who were left on the streets don’t have anywhere else to go and had no choice but to be seen . her eye lingered on them ˏ before she looks away .
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⠀ ⠀ — barely remembers anything from back then . so ˏ it felt .. unfair to bring that up .
she listened to him give on his reasoning ˏ her own gaze shifting down to look at any people below . she couldn’t see far ˏ but she could see —
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⠀ ⠀ — call him out on this for now . it was 𝓻ude to do so ˏ after all .
‘ i just don’t think a child should have gone through that . ’
she’d blame the fact she was built for children ˏ technically ˏ but she really —
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⠀ ⠀ ﹙ she could only wonder why she covered her in blue like that . like how she could only wonder why she liked . . hurting her . ﹚
‶ i can hang it up somewhere ˏ if you’d like . .‶
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⠀ ⠀ — different places to help out.ᐣ’
it was an understandable question . she didn’t mean it in a bad way ˏ of course ; it was just an odd observation .
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⠀ ⠀ — where you are from . i know you say that you don’t see yourself as a hero ˏ but i think you fit the role well .
but .. if i may ask ˏ if you have problems like that where you’re from ˏ why do you still travel to —
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⠀ ⠀ — she thought carefully about what else to add on .
‘ i’m sorry you had to go through that at all . obviously i understand what it’s like to live in a world like that ˏ and i’m glad you are trying to stop it —
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⠀ ⠀ — the images reflected in her eyes . she looked upset that this man was doing so many awful things ˏ too — it was.. 𝓾nfortunately f͟a͟m͟i͟l͟i͟a͟r͟ .
she traced the rim of where her middle finger was missing as she thought ˏ looking at him —
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⠀ ⠀ — before looking back at the screen .
‘ i’m sincerely sorry you had to fight that man as a child . no child should have to do that . ’
of course ˏ it was a terrible thing to imagine . it must’ve have been so 𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘺 .
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⠀ ⠀ — get angry ˏ and obviously she still did .
gwen fell quiet as she allowed him to speak and explain just who this person was to him . what he’s done . . as he pulled up the photos ˏ —
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