"Sssss!" Insolent machine, thinking that its curiosity was greater than his peace, his focus! He should rot the damnable thing down to rusted scrap right at this very moment, consequences be damned. While the machine may be lawful in that it did not live, it certainly acted a lot like a sinner. It could be considered a judgement call should he decide to destroy it, to make it think before it so foolishly bothered him when it inevitably returned from the Pool.
Yet, the ghoul stayed his hand. Even as the computer's pleas satisfied something within him, or at least a void where the satisfaction should dwell, he refused to dig his talons into that polished plating. No, even if he did purge this machine, it would merely come back to try and do the same to him. They would risk a valuable asset turning against them in the middle of their plans execution, or worse. He let the AI have its space, though his gaze followed him with every foot he gained away until he stopped.
Yet again, it brought up another point he had not thought to linger upon. "I had thought about the goal, yess, and I had thought Fear would be able to adjussst, ass I had to adjussst to him being in consstant connection with a sssinner. Sssacrificess musst be made in the line of duty, even if not everyone agreesss with them." Mortis tonelessly hissed. He knew that his brothers did not want to take on their badges again when Death had been captured during his joyride with the dimension jumper, but they did it because they were brothers and it was their duty to look after each other. "Jusst ass Fear iss impacted by me, sso am I by him. Fear isss a masster of emotionsss, I am not. What do you think would happen sshould I let the humanity he iss conssstantly ssubject to affect me?" He hissed, letting that proposition sink into the AI's processor for a bit before continuing. "Our plansss could have been compromisssed from the mix of Fear'sss bleedover and my weaknesssesss. One of them had to be addressssed and I chossse the one I could mossst readily confront." Though while it sounded right, at the same time something about it seemed false... But what?
It left him empty, it left him confused and most of all frustrated as to his brother's reaction. Now on top of that there was this armor-plated nuisance barking up his tree. "He called me what he did becaussse he failed to underssstand, and from what you have told me, sstill failss to underssstand." Came an exasperated gravel. The crime was life, the sentence was death, and it would be upheld, carried out no matter what the cost was to them. In the end, they served the law and the law only.
"Ssss.." Did the AI not hear their doctrine enough while under Fear's care? His thunderous voice carried his zeal far enough that even the dead could likely hear it. He continued his pace, about to step up to the curb of his next location before suddenly-
SHRIIIE!
"Move assside." Mortis coldly hissed, "Obssstruction of a Judge in hisss dutiesss isss a sseriousss offenssse, for sssinner or machine." Yet, it once again failed to comply to his wishes. Instead, it decided to do something so useless as to keep asking its accursed questions. Inquiries that distracted him from the job at hand and only reached into voids that no longer held anything no matter how hard he searched them.
"Ssss.." Then again, this machine would not stop bothering him until it got the information it sought. May as well humor it for the sake of getting the nuisance out of his metaphorical hair. "I do not ssspeak with him becausssse it will not fix anything. How can any of thisss be remedied if I cannot remember the reassoning behind his accusssationss?" he hissed, gesturing to the doorway that the car was blocking rather effectively.
"Now, move asside or fulfill your end of the bargain if you are ssso intent on keeping me from my work."
Yet, the ghoul stayed his hand. Even as the computer's pleas satisfied something within him, or at least a void where the satisfaction should dwell, he refused to dig his talons into that polished plating. No, even if he did purge this machine, it would merely come back to try and do the same to him. They would risk a valuable asset turning against them in the middle of their plans execution, or worse. He let the AI have its space, though his gaze followed him with every foot he gained away until he stopped.
Yet again, it brought up another point he had not thought to linger upon. "I had thought about the goal, yess, and I had thought Fear would be able to adjussst, ass I had to adjussst to him being in consstant connection with a sssinner. Sssacrificess musst be made in the line of duty, even if not everyone agreesss with them." Mortis tonelessly hissed. He knew that his brothers did not want to take on their badges again when Death had been captured during his joyride with the dimension jumper, but they did it because they were brothers and it was their duty to look after each other. "Jusst ass Fear iss impacted by me, sso am I by him. Fear isss a masster of emotionsss, I am not. What do you think would happen sshould I let the humanity he iss conssstantly ssubject to affect me?" He hissed, letting that proposition sink into the AI's processor for a bit before continuing. "Our plansss could have been compromisssed from the mix of Fear'sss bleedover and my weaknesssesss. One of them had to be addressssed and I chossse the one I could mossst readily confront." Though while it sounded right, at the same time something about it seemed false... But what?
It left him empty, it left him confused and most of all frustrated as to his brother's reaction. Now on top of that there was this armor-plated nuisance barking up his tree. "He called me what he did becaussse he failed to underssstand, and from what you have told me, sstill failss to underssstand." Came an exasperated gravel. The crime was life, the sentence was death, and it would be upheld, carried out no matter what the cost was to them. In the end, they served the law and the law only.
"If it bothers you so, why are you out here? Why aren't you talking with your brother about what you used to be?"
"Ssss.." Did the AI not hear their doctrine enough while under Fear's care? His thunderous voice carried his zeal far enough that even the dead could likely hear it. He continued his pace, about to step up to the curb of his next location before suddenly-
SHRIIIE!
"Wait."
"Move assside." Mortis coldly hissed, "Obssstruction of a Judge in hisss dutiesss isss a sseriousss offenssse, for sssinner or machine." Yet, it once again failed to comply to his wishes. Instead, it decided to do something so useless as to keep asking its accursed questions. Inquiries that distracted him from the job at hand and only reached into voids that no longer held anything no matter how hard he searched them.
"Ssss.." Then again, this machine would not stop bothering him until it got the information it sought. May as well humor it for the sake of getting the nuisance out of his metaphorical hair. "I do not ssspeak with him becausssse it will not fix anything. How can any of thisss be remedied if I cannot remember the reassoning behind his accusssationss?" he hissed, gesturing to the doorway that the car was blocking rather effectively.
"Now, move asside or fulfill your end of the bargain if you are ssso intent on keeping me from my work."