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Root ([personal profile] computation) wrote in [community profile] singillppl 2025-05-08 10:34 pm (UTC)

There are absolutely metaphorical gods, and Root follows one of them. Not blindly, but damn near absolutely. And she's never had cause to regret it. Even here and now, without the Machine's voice in her ear, she'll still do what she can to follow her based on her own understanding of her wishes.

Technically, the Machine is remote and untouchable the way Randvi is describing Enola, but Root has never found her to be that way in practice or emotionally. It's only like that for the peons who don't understand. The Machine is always, always listening; always caring, calculating, recalculating; Root doesn't have to strain to be heard, she has to strain to hear her. She speaks in the smallest gestures, the fewest words. Root absorbs them all greedily.

"Not doing a great job with the morale part of rallying her troops, huh?" Root notes. "It sounds like we're de facto on her side by virtue of not wanting to die, but she isn't making it easy to fight back. Is that fair?"

Does she have that right? Root is all about fighting back, and if Enola isn't giving them direction, she'll find one herself.

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