[And he is. He'll be the first one to pull back when a conversation reaches things he's not ready to admit, so he'd hate to do the same to someone else, someone he's trying to help. But at the same time, he gets the feeling this is a conversation that should have happened a long time ago, or Rich wouldn't have given control to the SQUIP to begin with.]
I just- [Rich knows he's not entirely human already, even though he hasn't specified what he actually is. So it doesn't hurt to put things in terms he will understand:] I want to help, but all of this, being so close to people's problems, having to interact with them up-front instead of from at a distance is new, to me.
I don't want to say the wrong thing and make things worse for you, dear boy.
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[And he is. He'll be the first one to pull back when a conversation reaches things he's not ready to admit, so he'd hate to do the same to someone else, someone he's trying to help. But at the same time, he gets the feeling this is a conversation that should have happened a long time ago, or Rich wouldn't have given control to the SQUIP to begin with.]
I just- [Rich knows he's not entirely human already, even though he hasn't specified what he actually is. So it doesn't hurt to put things in terms he will understand:] I want to help, but all of this, being so close to people's problems, having to interact with them up-front instead of from at a distance is new, to me.
I don't want to say the wrong thing and make things worse for you, dear boy.