[ if they've got a turnover rate, then it's not a difficult conclusion to jump to: ] We're the new blood.
[ oh, he definitely doesn't like that. Juno isn't a replacement, he isn't part of an army or a hive, shuffled in to fill out space, that's not how he works. except — it is now, apparently. because he made a stupid choice. something he blames himself for like it's his fault an unfathomable monster descended on his city, like he just wasn't good enough to figure out the third option hiding in "join us or die." ]
That's a hell of an operation. [ he shifts his weight and considers Ilde, narrow-eyed. her eerie calm and how hard it is to get a read on her as an individual; even when he reaches, cautious and begrudging, with the symbiote, she feels so much like the distant calm of the Nest. ] You seem pretty at peace with all this.
[ it's a hivemind. he wonders if she's how they all end up, one way or another. ]
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[ oh, he definitely doesn't like that. Juno isn't a replacement, he isn't part of an army or a hive, shuffled in to fill out space, that's not how he works. except — it is now, apparently. because he made a stupid choice. something he blames himself for like it's his fault an unfathomable monster descended on his city, like he just wasn't good enough to figure out the third option hiding in "join us or die." ]
That's a hell of an operation. [ he shifts his weight and considers Ilde, narrow-eyed. her eerie calm and how hard it is to get a read on her as an individual; even when he reaches, cautious and begrudging, with the symbiote, she feels so much like the distant calm of the Nest. ] You seem pretty at peace with all this.
[ it's a hivemind. he wonders if she's how they all end up, one way or another. ]