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  1. Public Bookmark 32

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    The first thing Gurathin had done back at the ravine had been reaching for the hardwire. No hesitation: He'd needed to check if he could keep Murderbot online that way, keep the spark going, fucking talk to it. Maybe needling him into anger so adrenaline kept—

    Doing its goddamn job.

    — — —

    (Overwhelming, imprecise — For all his vocabulary, there's words Gurathin refuses to deal with. "Grief" is only one of them: The list has some sweeter ones.)

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    03 Oct 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 9

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    “Why were you hardwired into me?”

    “Why do you find me choking you pleasurable?” I answered back.

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    Murderbot takes a peek into Gurathin's dream and is suprised by what it finds.

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    03 Oct 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 65

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    Dr. Gurathin takes an old-fashioned approach to discouraging Murderbot's ongoing attempts to surveil his private residence on Preservation Station. Murderbot handles the situation with grace and dignity:

    During previous incidents, Dr. Gurathin had messaged me over the feed with his objections, asking that I retrieve the identified drone and not use it to re-infiltrate his personal living space. Luckily, Mensah had bought me two cases of drones, so I was able to use a different one for each new infiltration, adhering to his request.

    This time, he had unexpectedly dropped a container of hot liquid over the drone. It was still functional (a drone that couldn’t handle water would be useless for planetside deployments) but the audio was muted and its visual inputs were restricted to the interior of a First Landing University mug. I could probably push the mug off the furniture surface using the drone’s propulsion system, but I was getting a 99.2% risk assessment that this action would cause mug to break. That had an 84.6% chance of turning this incident from a minor annoyance into a Big Fucking Deal involving meetings and consensus and talking about this, ugh.

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    03 Oct 2025

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    We had been at the base of the collapsed habitat section for approximately three minutes. Approximately, because one of the large, heavy bits of plasteel that had been raining down on us had knocked my system offline for the first minute or so.

    I was pinned beneath a large structural support, which was infuriatingly cliche, and had happened no less than three times in Strife in the Galaxy.

    Performance reliability at 42%.

    Mainly because I couldn’t stand up.

     

    Or, Murderbot and Gurathin trapped in a collapsed building.

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    02 Oct 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 83

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    As a SecUnit, I’m historically pretty good at keeping my clients alive. Technically Dr. Mensah and her crew aren’t my clients anymore. That does not mean they should start doing reckless things like risking their ridiculously fragile organic selves protecting me. (They do anyway).

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