Kaiden Archibald: Ignoring his font coding error from last post
Of three things that Kaiden was absolutely positive. First, he was still confused about this whole situation. Second, there was a part of him - and he didn't know how potent that part might be - that almost wanted to hug the fearful robot in front of him. And third, why did it have to be him that Astraea asked about its condition? Then again, the only other being in the room was a giant robot lizard thing, so that much was to be expected. At the very least, they needed to abduct another human so that Kaiden had somebody to talk to.
Kaiden sighed, looking at the trembling Astraea with a mixture of pity and disgust. It had a human appearance, so seeing it in this state was almost heart-breaking. Yet, he remembered exactly what it was and what it had done to him, so he became irritated he even thought about giving it a hug or otherwise comforting it. He believed a machine shouldn't feel fear, but judging by how it began sweating, stuttering, and shaking, he figured that Astraea was "scared shitless", likely due to what transpired between the giant lizard thing and itself. Oddly, he was almost less sure of this after Astraea had explained to him what it was feeling, probably because of the quick but complicated way it listed off its symptoms. It only further reinforced how much he disliked this situation, as only a robot could ever speak like that, even while frightened.
He crossed his arms and simply glared at Astraea for a solid three seconds while remaining silent, before he finally spoke up. "I suggest taking a few deep breaths and getting your breathing back under control." he instructed. Astraea sure was making a big fuss out of being scared. He wondered if all robots were drama queens? Honestly, he almost wanted to laugh at how absurd this was, an artificial intelligence that broke its way out of confinement, threatened him if he wouldn't obey, and ran from fleets of human ships... it was incapable of standing on its own legs right now because it was scared? What was next? The big bad turned out to be a flower? Pathetic. This script was horrible.
"In the future, try not to do things that might scare you, if you want to avoid this thing from happeningn again. he told it.