The other good thing about being a bot-human construct is you can have a horrified emotional response while still, you know, successfully multitasking. Murderbot crouches to inspect the wound, and the smell hits it all at once. Its sensory inputs flip the fuck out. How could anything in human blood overload its visual processing just by proximity exposure? Could this be alien remnant contamination? The idea makes its organic skin go cold.
First things first: the human needs its help. If the human is infected with something, it's probably too late for Murderbot to do anything about that, or to keep itself from getting infected too. But it can keep the human from losing their foot, which is probably a good start either way.
It applies their improvised bandage, gentle and firm, and then stands to look at whatever the human is trying to hand it.
Oh, no.
Murderbot's face makes another expression. It's worse than the first one. With all its superior processing speed, it says: ]
Uh.
You should keep it.
[ There's not really a good way to say well, my arms can grow back and you are alarmingly fragile and I have no idea how to accept a gift. ]
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The other good thing about being a bot-human construct is you can have a horrified emotional response while still, you know, successfully multitasking. Murderbot crouches to inspect the wound, and the smell hits it all at once. Its sensory inputs flip the fuck out. How could anything in human blood overload its visual processing just by proximity exposure? Could this be alien remnant contamination? The idea makes its organic skin go cold.
First things first: the human needs its help. If the human is infected with something, it's probably too late for Murderbot to do anything about that, or to keep itself from getting infected too. But it can keep the human from losing their foot, which is probably a good start either way.
It applies their improvised bandage, gentle and firm, and then stands to look at whatever the human is trying to hand it.
Oh, no.
Murderbot's face makes another expression. It's worse than the first one. With all its superior processing speed, it says: ]
Uh.
You should keep it.
[ There's not really a good way to say well, my arms can grow back and you are alarmingly fragile and I have no idea how to accept a gift. ]