"Mass was... the only other agent who worked primarily on intelligence—on data, coding. We spent hours together in the computer centre and we—" she laughs, emptily, "hated each other, for most of that time. Ze didn't like hackers and I didn't like zir attitude. But I took a chance and asked for help when I realised what was going on. Mass had experience with AI, so... it made sense at the time. Then, when Command tried to have me killed the first time, they succeeded in killing Mass."
Pure luck, that she herself survived. If Wyoming hadn't taken a stray bullet she'd have died on the motorway at the other end of his gun, blood pooling on the asphalt. Mass didn't get lucky. Mass was dropped off and left to die.
"I hid behind that. I let them think they'd disposed of their mole. And— and I think the moment I truly realised that it was my fault, that I got Mass killed, that's when CT started to feel real."
Before it had just been a name, just something she told the others on a whim when she was angry as she started to see through the smoke, but that night it became real. That night CT became her and Connie became... something else.
"...I don't really know where the line is, anymore."
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A vague affirmative noise.
"Mass was... the only other agent who worked primarily on intelligence—on data, coding. We spent hours together in the computer centre and we—" she laughs, emptily, "hated each other, for most of that time. Ze didn't like hackers and I didn't like zir attitude. But I took a chance and asked for help when I realised what was going on. Mass had experience with AI, so... it made sense at the time. Then, when Command tried to have me killed the first time, they succeeded in killing Mass."
Pure luck, that she herself survived. If Wyoming hadn't taken a stray bullet she'd have died on the motorway at the other end of his gun, blood pooling on the asphalt. Mass didn't get lucky. Mass was dropped off and left to die.
"I hid behind that. I let them think they'd disposed of their mole. And— and I think the moment I truly realised that it was my fault, that I got Mass killed, that's when CT started to feel real."
Before it had just been a name, just something she told the others on a whim when she was angry as she started to see through the smoke, but that night it became real. That night CT became her and Connie became... something else.
"...I don't really know where the line is, anymore."