[If the format ran to completion, he shouldn't be here. Couldn't. And certainly not this intact. But Arid sounds certain enough to make him hesitate in asking how.
The caretaker is a different issue. No less complicated in some ways, and he isn't sure whether to be more shocked or more impressed. It's not the end he'd expected to those thirty years of careful co-existence, especially after what happened in the labs.
But this is one death he doesn't think he can regret. Especially when he hadn't gotten Arid.]
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The caretaker is a different issue. No less complicated in some ways, and he isn't sure whether to be more shocked or more impressed. It's not the end he'd expected to those thirty years of careful co-existence, especially after what happened in the labs.
But this is one death he doesn't think he can regret. Especially when he hadn't gotten Arid.]
...
Good.
[Short, hard, and quiet.]
What about your human? Did you both make it out?
[Arid seems... remarkably un-formatted herself.]