( it's occurred to clint that he hadn't done quite as much exploring and questioning in moorecroft as he'd have liked to, retrospectively speaking. he doesn't know if clint and bobbi being assigned to the same family, being assigned as husband and wife was deliberate, or—. no, scratch that, he's certain it'd been deliberate, but what he's not certain about is why. had it been at attempt, foolish and pointless, to try and get them to reconcile? they've done that dance time and time again, and as much as clint would like—.
it's not going to happen. it always end in tears.
the other option, of course, was that it'd been a distraction. something that he'd been guaranteed to focus on rather than moorecroft himself. and if that'd been the aim, well, it'd worked.
that and the jobs. maybe that was the point of those, too, more then, or even just as much as, the community aspect. it's hard to spend time fucking around and making a nuisance of yourself if you're working forty hours a week. if you're tired from the day-to-day mundanity of your life.
those are the thoughts that don't get vocalised as gorgug speaks, his brain picking at the occasional remark. )
—Aurora said they're all free to run their cities in whatever way works best for the citizens under their care. Said that she's still gettin' to know us and what works best for our comforts during our time with her. ( their time with her. the implication that it's finite, despite moorecroft being around for years. he knows he'd said it earlier, but it'd been without the additional context of the broader conversation and what clint had been trying to get at with asking it.
he's not quite dumb enough to think that aurora can't hear what they're saying even when they're not wearing the earpieces, but he does think there's more security to be had in a private conversation held in person. ) Said, too, that she's designed to learn from her actions and inactions, and Eos was designed to "evolve" and learn from her experiences.
( a breath in, a sip of coffee and a quirk of his lips. it's almost a smile. ) Which is the long way of saying — sure. I'd put money on Moorecroft having looked a lot like Etraya when it first started out. It was probably those first few arrivals that had an effect on the look of the place and how Eos runs it.
—And, uh, not as part of this conversation, can't even remember how it came about. ( no, he can, it was because they'd been talking about his brother—. ) But she's got a full history on all of us. Knows about our childhoods, conversations we've had, relationships we've had. All of it.
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it's not going to happen. it always end in tears.
the other option, of course, was that it'd been a distraction. something that he'd been guaranteed to focus on rather than moorecroft himself. and if that'd been the aim, well, it'd worked.
that and the jobs. maybe that was the point of those, too, more then, or even just as much as, the community aspect. it's hard to spend time fucking around and making a nuisance of yourself if you're working forty hours a week. if you're tired from the day-to-day mundanity of your life.
those are the thoughts that don't get vocalised as gorgug speaks, his brain picking at the occasional remark. )
—Aurora said they're all free to run their cities in whatever way works best for the citizens under their care. Said that she's still gettin' to know us and what works best for our comforts during our time with her. ( their time with her. the implication that it's finite, despite moorecroft being around for years. he knows he'd said it earlier, but it'd been without the additional context of the broader conversation and what clint had been trying to get at with asking it.
he's not quite dumb enough to think that aurora can't hear what they're saying even when they're not wearing the earpieces, but he does think there's more security to be had in a private conversation held in person. ) Said, too, that she's designed to learn from her actions and inactions, and Eos was designed to "evolve" and learn from her experiences.
( a breath in, a sip of coffee and a quirk of his lips. it's almost a smile. ) Which is the long way of saying — sure. I'd put money on Moorecroft having looked a lot like Etraya when it first started out. It was probably those first few arrivals that had an effect on the look of the place and how Eos runs it.
—And, uh, not as part of this conversation, can't even remember how it came about. ( no, he can, it was because they'd been talking about his brother—. ) But she's got a full history on all of us. Knows about our childhoods, conversations we've had, relationships we've had. All of it.