Being grateful

[tm_carolyn]

For my friends, certainly; for the fact Al and I still have each other, absolutely; but you know what I'm thankful for most of all? For having my sense of self again, being able to think and feel as myself, without the machine shredding everything I am in pieces and making me do its bidding

Comments

[rogersmith_bigo]

And I'm certainly glad that you have achieved your independence. I would never have met you otherwise and I think my life would be poorer for not knowing you.

[tm_carolyn]

*deeply touched*

Thank you, Roger. You know, you and Dorothy showed me that interaction between organic and artificial sentient beings can be so different, and so much more - and I'm really grateful for that as well.

[rogersmith_bigo]

I'm glad we could be of some help. I really wish we could get you out of that situation entirely.

[tm_carolyn]

Thank you. Are you the pilot of the ship Vir Cotto mentioned?

*phrasing it discreetly, since if he's not she doesn't want to make the mistake of telling about the plan for the rogue telepaths*

[tm_carolyn]

Then I am very thankful to you both as well. I myself won't be able to come, but I'm curious about your part of the universe. Are there any other telepaths around? What kind of societies exist?

[varzil_neskaya]

This is something the rest of us who know you are thankful for, too.
We wouldn't have met, otherwise.

[tm_carolyn]

And my life would have been the poorer for it. I was really very lucky to have met you, Varzil.