[It--backs off? The distance allows some of the panic to subside, at least enough to be able to understand what it's saying.
Royce, please. Do you think this dark copper skin could ever belong to a Process? He scowls, going from terrified to offended in 0.4 seconds.]
I'm not a Proce--! Wait.
[No, something feels uncomfortably familiar all the sudden. It's that...stilted speech pattern. One he'll never forget, after having to listen to it drone on for hours.]
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Royce, please. Do you think this dark copper skin could ever belong to a Process? He scowls, going from terrified to offended in 0.4 seconds.]
I'm not a Proce--! Wait.
[No, something feels uncomfortably familiar all the sudden. It's that...stilted speech pattern. One he'll never forget, after having to listen to it drone on for hours.]
...Royce? Royce Bracket?