We Are Bulletproof

I'll take care to keep out of sight.

:)

I'll see you soon.
Send me your coordinates in the meantime.

What?

...
Yes! Yes, it is!

It has been a long time, hasn't it?

Just concentrate on your work, all right?
I'll be there before you know it.

Soon. Probably within the week.
Like I said, they have the golem expert they want now.
They're not even going to miss me.

Then I won't say anything unless I'm certain.
Theories are only theories, anyway...
I'll know more with actual information.

...
Over something like this?

No no.
I don't think so.

It shouldn't.

Well...

I'd rather be certain...

Deactivation is only a last resort.

And I don't know anything. It doesn't
It's not really
I just have theories.

My dear... golems aren't naturally supposed to feel anything, even loneliness and emptiness. What you're feeling is coming from the soul part of you. The part of you that used to be like me.

As for your problem.

Well...
That's not technically true.
There are ways to ensure it doesn't. Deactivation is the last resort. But there are other ways. Keith showed me how to chip a soul. If I chipped mine and gave you a part of it, maybe that would fix it.

But...
I'm still trying to parse out why that's the issue at all. Because all of this would mean...
But it can't mean that
I'm not sure, I still need to check some things.

No, I don't think so.

It's a sense of loneliness? Emptiness?
I feel that way all the time and I'm still capable of work. :)

Anyway, if it's connected to me, maybe it'll lessen when I'm there.

Perfection was never my goal.
That was Keith.

I think his goal in creating you was to see what happened when the two halves of a soul mate were no longer separated by a body. I admit I thought it was an interesting question to explore. But maybe there's a reason soul mates aren't bound together in a single body...


I'll do what I can then, whether it means deactivation or something else.

No. I don't think so. I don't see you as defective.

Is it unbearable enough to warrant deactivation?

Oh.
Why does that make me a little sad to hear?

Sigh.
We must have messed something up somehow.
I'm sorry.