>>5274740“Wh-...where is any of this coming from?!” You demand, utterly bewildered at the turn this entire interaction’s taken. “She’s a KID, for god’s sake! She woke up in a place where nothing makes sense, and she’s trying to make the best of a situation that she has no precedent for, with people that keep looking at her like she’s supposed to have everything figured out, but she doesn’t, and she-”
“Shu, what the FUCK are you talking about?” Sam sneers, and you find yourself wondering the same thing as you scramble to get your mind back on track.
“Sam, please, I am begging you, here…can we *please* talk about this like-”
“Like what? Like adults? Like *equals*?” Like we’ve got ANYTHING in common at all? Oh, yeah, says the second coming of Mother Theresa over here, solving everyone’s problems like this is one of B’ni’s long-ass RPGs. Got Sims Jesus over here fixing anything that dares to fucking LOOK at her funny. What’s next, you gonna spawn a bunch of fuckin’ edible bees or some shit and solve the Hunger crisis?”
“That’s-!” You falter, and Sam just barks out a peal of harsh laughter as you find yourself considering the logistics before you force yourself to focus. “M-maybe! But none of that’s relevant, I’m just trying to figure out what-”
“What comes next, huh? What’s going to happen to me? Or November?” Sam demands suddenly, and you’re reeling as you try to figure out where Rath’s aunt fits into *any* of this as Sam continues her inexplicable tirade. “She may have some biomass left in her shell, but I ain’t got SHIT. What happens to me when you save the world, huh? You’re so fucking focused on saving everybody, so what happens to me at the end of all this?!”
“Is…is that what this is about? You?!” You take a step back, disgusted. “Always, ALWAYS about YOU! Do you ever think of anything else?!”
“What do you think I was trying to do with HER?!” Sam roars, a finger thrusting in the direction Samantha was led off to. “I was trying to think of someone else’s feelings for ONCE in my stupid fucking-!”
“No, no no no, if you actually cared about that girl you wouldn’t have thrown on an invisibility cloak like a scared little kid. You wouldn’t have…Jesus fucking Christ, you wouldn’t have strolled into a camp and SLAUGHTERED everyone in it! Do you know?! Do you have ANY idea, even the slightest fucking CLUE what I just spent the last hour doing? I was talking to your VICTIMS. I was checking in with the people we were able to salvage from your shitshow, and I had to look a kid and her mom in the eyes and act like everything was okay, when they’d still be alive if you hadn’t flown off the handle! If…if you hadn’t killed EVERYONE there!”
“They...they had it coming.” She says, as cold and as simple as the machinery she chose to be in.
You feel like you’re going to throw up.
(Continued)
