There is no closer bond than a contract between souls. Nike cannot have a more total and complete partnership than the one she shares with the Exo who sustains her. Hers is a symbiotic existence. Unable to exist for long on her own and working in service to aid the one she has become linked with.
However, these are all necessary. They are not human attachments, not the way Saint knows them. Hope, respect, love...these are emotions Nike has no context for. They were unnecessary when her life was a struggle for survival among her own kind. She is struggling to understand them now that she is dropped in the midst of them.
"Then I cannot understand, because I am not human. My kind are not social, nor frivolous. Nevertheless I will continue to observe. Perhaps someday I will grasp what benefit there is to such illogical drives. It's clearly important to all of you."
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However, these are all necessary. They are not human attachments, not the way Saint knows them. Hope, respect, love...these are emotions Nike has no context for. They were unnecessary when her life was a struggle for survival among her own kind. She is struggling to understand them now that she is dropped in the midst of them.
"Then I cannot understand, because I am not human. My kind are not social, nor frivolous. Nevertheless I will continue to observe. Perhaps someday I will grasp what benefit there is to such illogical drives. It's clearly important to all of you."