( She hasn't been a kid for a long time. Sure, yes, by most metrics at nineteen she definitely still is in terms of strictly age, but... if she was ever a kid, they trained that out of her before her earliest memories. It was made abundantly clear to her the moment her brain started to solidify into real thoughts that she was meant to be an object, "a thing with patents and copyrights".
There was a time, briefly, for a few days, where she might've been a daughter. A granddaughter. Even if it was just pretend. She maybe was a kid then, for a while — but then it was over, and she's been fending for herself nearly ever since. A few pleasant years in Canada, and then came the Void, entirely on her own for a very long time. Her allies came later, and slowly.
Surviving independently is a way of life. Kindness is rare.
That's why she's suspicious when that voice drifts up to her, the words taking a moment to process. She'd noticed he was there, it's hard not to with the way her senses work, but she hadn't been paying attention. Certainly hadn't noticed that he was paying attention to her.
And it sounds suspiciously like he's offering to buy something for her.
I won't feel as awkward doing shopping by myself; she doesn't believe that motive. Not at all. And so the first thing she says to him is a simple, mistrustful: )
no subject
There was a time, briefly, for a few days, where she might've been a daughter. A granddaughter. Even if it was just pretend. She maybe was a kid then, for a while — but then it was over, and she's been fending for herself nearly ever since. A few pleasant years in Canada, and then came the Void, entirely on her own for a very long time. Her allies came later, and slowly.
Surviving independently is a way of life. Kindness is rare.
That's why she's suspicious when that voice drifts up to her, the words taking a moment to process. She'd noticed he was there, it's hard not to with the way her senses work, but she hadn't been paying attention. Certainly hadn't noticed that he was paying attention to her.
And it sounds suspiciously like he's offering to buy something for her.
I won't feel as awkward doing shopping by myself; she doesn't believe that motive. Not at all. And so the first thing she says to him is a simple, mistrustful: )
Why?
( What are you really expecting out of this? )