[Arid says nothing to the first remark, unsure of how to process it. She has changed. She’s broken herself and been broken in equal measures and she hadn’t been content to keep that brokenness to herself. If she has understanding now, she’s hardly been the only one to pay for it.

Her faceplate lifts as Hank-Morely continues, but the ambivalence doesn’t clear. He helped her because he chose to. He doesn’t regret it. Would he, if he knew what she had done? What she had played a role in creating? She had changed following his format; it had not been for the better.]

I… committed many wrongs after leaving the facility. My actions hurt many and may hurt many more. [Hank-Morely had encouraged her to think for herself—to choose for herself. And yet, Arid had taken his advice to an extreme he could not have foreseen or intended. To compare her choices to his seems erroneous at best.]

If I am different now, it is because I seek to make amends.