[Not meeting his eyes, still whispered, a shameful confession. She has chafed at it since she arrived, tried to circumvent it, to trick and trigger and trip outside the borders of her conditioning, but never totally succeeded, not when parts of it are literally hard-wired. And there is a collapsing of distance, a synecdoche that is all too literal: she is her mission status, she is her mission, or its absence.]
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[Not meeting his eyes, still whispered, a shameful confession. She has chafed at it since she arrived, tried to circumvent it, to trick and trigger and trip outside the borders of her conditioning, but never totally succeeded, not when parts of it are literally hard-wired. And there is a collapsing of distance, a synecdoche that is all too literal: she is her mission status, she is her mission, or its absence.]