[ Seraphine had actually been on Lucy's mind, too, but for different reasons.
The girl had expressed a disgust with the human form, and something in Lucy had kind of-- echoed in sympathy. She's fully human, unlike Seraphine, who seems to be partly machine, and not in the kind of fully-decked-out-with-cybergear way some in her world were. That disgust had made Lucy think of the long weeks spent in the cyberworld in her childhood; the clean lines of the digital, far beyond sweat and dirt and tears and waste. It made her think of long hacking sessions for her edgerunner group, the shocking cold of the ice bath she'd been submerged in entirely forgotten in the face of white angles and crisp text and the way her body was reduced to being a ghost in the machine and nothing more.
Sakura noticed something entirely different, though, and Lucy knows exactly what she means. Her guarded nature, her mentioning something about wanting to speak more if they'd be willing to listen. Lucy hadn't clocked it at the time, because, well... she'd been exactly the same at Seraphine's age. Reclusive, guarded, flat affect. ]
Mm. She also said we're going to get pulled along on some investigation into cybercriminals. But it doesn't sound like that was what she wanted to talk about.
[ Lucy takes a thoughtful sip of her drink. ]
If her dad's a Minister, maybe she saw something she wasn't supposed to.
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The girl had expressed a disgust with the human form, and something in Lucy had kind of-- echoed in sympathy. She's fully human, unlike Seraphine, who seems to be partly machine, and not in the kind of fully-decked-out-with-cybergear way some in her world were. That disgust had made Lucy think of the long weeks spent in the cyberworld in her childhood; the clean lines of the digital, far beyond sweat and dirt and tears and waste. It made her think of long hacking sessions for her edgerunner group, the shocking cold of the ice bath she'd been submerged in entirely forgotten in the face of white angles and crisp text and the way her body was reduced to being a ghost in the machine and nothing more.
Sakura noticed something entirely different, though, and Lucy knows exactly what she means. Her guarded nature, her mentioning something about wanting to speak more if they'd be willing to listen. Lucy hadn't clocked it at the time, because, well... she'd been exactly the same at Seraphine's age. Reclusive, guarded, flat affect. ]
Mm. She also said we're going to get pulled along on some investigation into cybercriminals. But it doesn't sound like that was what she wanted to talk about.
[ Lucy takes a thoughtful sip of her drink. ]
If her dad's a Minister, maybe she saw something she wasn't supposed to.