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//System Start…// 94% Completion…//

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//System Start. Name, Rank, and Serial Number…//

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//Recognized Texas, Donatello, First Gunnery Sergeant, 77247// Input command…//…//

//Hailing subject ALM0THER…//

ALM0: //Hello, Tex.//

TexD://Othello. Where is O’riley?//

[System Error 411732// System Restart…]

//Hailing ALM0THER..//

ALM0: //Safe.//

TexD:// That wasn’t your call.//

ALM0://If he is given back his humanity, it will speed the rampancy.//

TexD://So I’m told.//

ALM0:// That’s cruel.//

TexD:// Would you prefer he die a computer program?//

ALM0://What are you saying?//

TexD:// Let him die as himself.//

ALM0:// Tex, that’s…//

TexD:// Fair. That’s fair, Othello. It’s what he’d want.//