[ Root is not curious or worried, but then, she's never formally aligned herself with a government in her life. Nuclear fallout as the conclusion of a CIS and NATO conflict makes complete sense, and she's both not the type to offer sympathy and senses Miller is not the type to want to receive it. ]
Yup-- American. I'm a globe-trotting assassin, [ she puts in casually, ] or I used to be. Lately I do whatever my rogue A.I. overlord tells me to do.
[ She's told him some about the Machine already; it rapidly became pointless to keep it a secret when she arrived to imminent A.I. breakdown.
And she knows it's going to auto-translate but she still says something brightly in Russian, assuming Miller will hear the difference in her mediocre accent. ] Привет, какой путь к метро? [ Hello, which way to the Metro? ]
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Yup-- American. I'm a globe-trotting assassin, [ she puts in casually, ] or I used to be. Lately I do whatever my rogue A.I. overlord tells me to do.
[ She's told him some about the Machine already; it rapidly became pointless to keep it a secret when she arrived to imminent A.I. breakdown.
And she knows it's going to auto-translate but she still says something brightly in Russian, assuming Miller will hear the difference in her mediocre accent. ] Привет, какой путь к метро? [ Hello, which way to the Metro? ]