[ Well, she'll live another day. She tries to smile at them, but it's really a hollow imitation of what a smile should be like. ]
They've conducted experiments on the captives.
[ She put down the books by the sink so they could peer at them if they so wanted. She said nothing, but books on the brain and psychology-- Next to grey and pulpy biological matter covered with blood? The correlation was obvious. ]
I think they're trying to understand how humans work. [A pause.] Or how to change them.
[ Made sense to her really. Clearly whoever had made that city didn't know how humans worked. And given the stories she'd heard so far, the likelihood their "robbie" neighbors had once been humans who had somehow been changed was high. ]
No worries!
They've conducted experiments on the captives.
[ She put down the books by the sink so they could peer at them if they so wanted. She said nothing, but books on the brain and psychology-- Next to grey and pulpy biological matter covered with blood? The correlation was obvious. ]
I think they're trying to understand how humans work. [A pause.] Or how to change them.
[ Made sense to her really. Clearly whoever had made that city didn't know how humans worked. And given the stories she'd heard so far, the likelihood their "robbie" neighbors had once been humans who had somehow been changed was high. ]