When she's had her whole worldview abruptly rearranged in a very dramatic fashion and correspondingly rearranged herself, who she is, in response... then found herself here, when she knows she should be dead--
Root's not going to argue with the evidence in front of her. She's one of the rare scientific minds who is comfortable with ambiguity, with the unknown. It doesn't bother her; it just makes her fascinated, laser-focused, a mystery of the universe dangled in front of her and her small human mind trying to comprehend whatever corner of it it can. This isn't as good as discovering the Machine, of course, but it's something akin to it.
She parses Randvi's response to be something like RPG abilities -- she likes video games even if she's not a diehard gamer -- and ponders that.
"What do we have to do to earn that?" She assumes it isn't given out for free, or to the unworthy. "I wouldn't mind some of those."
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Root's not going to argue with the evidence in front of her. She's one of the rare scientific minds who is comfortable with ambiguity, with the unknown. It doesn't bother her; it just makes her fascinated, laser-focused, a mystery of the universe dangled in front of her and her small human mind trying to comprehend whatever corner of it it can. This isn't as good as discovering the Machine, of course, but it's something akin to it.
She parses Randvi's response to be something like RPG abilities -- she likes video games even if she's not a diehard gamer -- and ponders that.
"What do we have to do to earn that?" She assumes it isn't given out for free, or to the unworthy. "I wouldn't mind some of those."