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  1. Public Bookmark 14

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    The world keeps blurring at its edges, and it’s threatening to take him with it.

    Focus.

    He feels like a wisp of smoke, at risk of blowing away in the rising wind.

    Desperately, he tries to keep hold on the world around him. Keep himself from fading away.

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    He comes to on a wreck of meat and fire with barely a thought in his head. There’s something happening, something urgent. The others are worried, snapping at each other in harsh tones around the edge of the campfire, yet despite their issues, they move forward – if he can’t keep up, he’ll get left behind. Maybe, if he can be useful, they’ll keep him around.

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    02 Oct 2025

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    ch. 3

  2. Public Bookmark 56

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    One of Mensah's children wants to read aloud to SecUnit from a chapter book. What's the worst that could happen? (It gets so spooked by a stupid old piece of children's media hitting too close to home that it has to run off and have an emotional collapse about it, that's the worst that could happen.)

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    28 Sep 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 59

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    It’s not that I wasn’t curious, and it’s not like there wasn’t a more logical part of me that knew that this was terrible security procedure, even if I didn’t hear a peep from risk assessment (what else is new?). But on a deeper level, I knew there wasn’t any risk.

    I wanted ART to prove it to me.

    I wanted to go in blind and know that it wouldn’t hurt me, and that it would stop if I asked it to. I wanted to let ART in and not have to think about it.

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    ART takes Murderbot up on an offer to plug into each other's systems.

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    23 Sep 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 69

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    What if the buoy launch failed?

    How does PresAux survive on a survey planet while being hunted by GrayCris?

    How does a murderbot survive in such close quarters to its humans?

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    09 Sep 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    ch. 10

  5. Public Bookmark 40

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    I shouldn't take it personally that everyone loved Three. It was just better than me. At everything: Kicking my ass, not being a pile of anxiety, getting along with humans... just, everything.
    It was fine. It was fine, right?
    So if it was fine, the problem wasn't with being a SecUnit, the problem was with me. I didn't like that and I definitely didn't want to talk about it.

    A short story about SecUnit seeing how well Three is doing, and what that must mean about itself. Get cared for, idiot.

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    25 Aug 2025