[ Shaw had told her that the Machine was destroyed but lived on somehow, that she heard her (literally her) voice, but Root had more focused on the second part of that. Hearing her referred to as dead out loud makes the skin on the back of her neck prickle, her heartrate increase automatically, preparing for threats.

Root grapples her reaction under control, affect flattening. ]

You want to talk about what we've done indirectly? How about the time I asked you to save me and you got captured and psychologically tortured for ten months?

Is that the conversation you want to have, Shaw?