[No. It's... more a conscious lie this time. But it's confident that these humans are wrong about what's happening here. Dimensional travel is something out of fucking stories. Even alien remnants can't do that.
And if it accepts that ART can't find it -
Sharply, almost angrily almost anxiously, it starts untangling its arm from the console at the center, spooling away wires and pieces and prodding the overlying organic parts back into place, its expression stony.]
no subject
[No. It's... more a conscious lie this time. But it's confident that these humans are wrong about what's happening here. Dimensional travel is something out of fucking stories. Even alien remnants can't do that.
And if it accepts that ART can't find it -
Sharply, almost angrily
almost anxiously, it starts untangling its arm from the console at the center, spooling away wires and pieces and prodding the overlying organic parts back into place, its expression stony.]What are you going to do with the runes.