[HEPHAESTUS, HADES... subroutines, she thinks Aloy had called them. Networked machines, maybe, except their master program was benevolent, unlike those eerie children from her world. And yet they had broken free to defy her.
Beta's curiosity about Pascal and the other machines isn't unexpected, but A2 closes in on herself a little anyway.] ...
[She sighs.] At first they weren't anything. [This is said with some disdain.] They weren't like us. They were just mindless killers. That's what — what we thought. They were [she almost says "stealing," and amends herself.] learning from us. Some were cut from their network and started to... evolve. To change.
Pascal was... Pascal was the head of a machine village in the Forest. It was full of peaceful machines that had been separated from the main network. None of them wanted to fight.
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Beta's curiosity about Pascal and the other machines isn't unexpected, but A2 closes in on herself a little anyway.] ...
[She sighs.] At first they weren't anything. [This is said with some disdain.] They weren't like us. They were just mindless killers. That's what — what we thought. They were [she almost says "stealing," and amends herself.] learning from us. Some were cut from their network and started to... evolve. To change.
Pascal was... Pascal was the head of a machine village in the Forest. It was full of peaceful machines that had been separated from the main network. None of them wanted to fight.