“The more I hear from you, the less alien you become,” she says to the pixels. “I keep worrying I’m, I don’t know, anthropomorphizing you. Seeing you through my own filters… but I can’t unsee it. You’re a colonizer. All the way from another fucking dimension and still just like the worst people from right here.” She shakes her head. “There’s probably a way we can coexist. If we worked together on it, we could come up with some compromise that’s acceptable to both our peoples. You don’t want compromise, tho, do you? That’s how equals work out problems, but you don’t think of us as equals.
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