action;
[ it isn't comforting, but being the presence of someone she trusts whose ethical subroutines have not been removed is. but she also feels startlingly more... fragile while in close proximity to someone she cares about deeply — she remembers that, is certain of that. putting on a brave face, so to speak, and speaking with commander riker and captain picard about the atrocities committed by ransom and the crew of the equinox was easy, practically second nature. her own well being hadn't mattered when ensuring that the wrongdoings of those people was documented, reported to those above her, that someone with the proper authority was made aware. but now it did. very much so. and she found herself questioning the status of her fate, and being frightened by the prospect of the termination of her existence.
seven was about as equipped to deal with this as she had what the borg queen had dragged her through months earlier. ]
I suppose so. [ it's halfhearted at best, but seven is willing to look on the bright side. it was the human thing to do, after all.
abruptly, she changes the topic. (another very human thing to do.) ] Had I been able to remember my time here, I would have missed you, Data.