Yet.
“How is the house arrest?”
“Driving me crazy,” he sighed. “It’s like a restlessness I can’t cure. My sleeping, my eating, it’s all out of sync, and it’s getting worse. I don’t know how you deal.”
By not needing to sleep or eat, primarily…
Sounds like Army thinks Dragon is simply a recluse who only steps out of her laboratory when she has to.
I mean, I suppose there’s some truth to that.
She offered an awkward, apologetic half grin on her own monitor.
Hehe.
“Geez, I’m sorry.” He looked genuinely horrified as he realized what he’d said.
Apparently he thinks Dragon is a recluse not by her own choice.
That or he actually knows she’s an AI (unlikely) who is restricted in what she can do.
“It’s fine,” she spoke. “Really.”
“I suppose you’re prisoner too, in your own way. Trapped by your agoraphobia?”
Ahh, so that’s the official story? Actually, that sounds a bit familiar – did we hear about that before?
No blog search results for variants of agoraphobi*, so I guess not.