“Possibly I was overthinking this? I do that. It’s the anxiety that comes with being a part organic murderbot. The upside was paranoid attention to detail. The downside was also paranoid attention to detail.”
- Murderbot, Exit Strategy chapter 1
New blog post: Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells (Murderbot Diaries book 3) https://roytang.net/2025/12/rogue-protocol/
Pin-Lee said something really filthy that wasn’t supposed to be in my knowledge base, but already was.
It was stored along with other words I’d learned from her during our time on the survey, in an organized collection of words and gestures I’d never been allowed to keep while under control of the fucking governor module.
I had learned some from clients while working for the company, but I had learned even more from all the media I watched and read. Used later, on the company gunship. The obscene gesture I made at the company employee, making stupid Gurathin choke.
Posted my second ever fanfic!
https://archiveofourown.org/works/75822841
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I will post a reply to this post with the fic because again it is a drabble.