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I come back from the dead.
Something happened. Something happened just now— I came back from the dead, yes, I know, I'm not talking about this, something before that— beyond, even, there was a recognition, a realization, somehow much more important than the hostiles I am currently grinding to dust on my deck, more important, even, than SecUnit's humans with their raised hands and SecUnit with its raised voice and myself, raised from my grave. What was it?
What's going on? I ask futilely, my voice distorting through the speakers. SecUnit's humans jump, startled. What the fuck is going on—
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[ART is stuck reliving the same horrible no good day in the Adamantine space, even though it knows time loops aren't real, not the way they are shown in media. What is it meant to do in order to get out? Who put it there, and why?]
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18 Feb 2026
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Five times SecUnit's humans saw that it loved ART and one time Iris saw it too.
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Or,
It is common knowledge that Perihelion is an obsessive psychopath when it comes to being right, and that it is similarly obsessive over producing high-quality empirical evidence to vindicate itself (whether anyone else even cares that much or not).
It is not common knowledge that its sister has, unfortunately, also picked up this habit.
So when SecUnit disagrees with Iris over something and watches her turn around and leave without argument, it has no idea what is coming.
Well, kind of.
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15 Feb 2026
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ART tries to kill itself -- completely out of nowhere and over something entirely innocuous. Or was it simply the last straw?
Pause. Roll back the tape. Let's see how we got here. And after that, let's figure out how to go on.
[surfactant: a substance that reduces the surface tension of a liquid in which it is dissolved. a measure of relief -- or a prevention of collapse]
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05 Feb 2026
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The Pure Vessel might be the worst possible bug for someone to reincarnate into.
At least their gender dysphoria is cured.
Now they just have to pretend to be hollow until they're strong enough to take on the Radiance.
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We'll be staying for four additional standard hours, I tell Iris. Security assessment and strategizing.
The shuttle is already scheduled to pick us up at the projected time, ART-Drone pipes up in what's supposed to be a private channel. It's radiating nonchalance. Perihelion is aware.
Iris turns to look at it, and one of my indoors drones catches the way she arches an eyebrow.
ART-Drone radiates harder.
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[ART has a fear. Murderbot helps it face that fear in a controlled environment.]
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26 Dec 2025