The Auxilia-commander froze at Darclight's words. "You don't want to do that," she answered slowly, her head lowered, still turned away from him, "you're trying to save me. Please don't."<br/><br/>She clenched her fists, trembling slightly, her voice hard and dangerous, "I'll betray you, I swear I will. I'll enslave your friends, your allies, your people. I'll destroy everything you've worked toward. And you'll never understand why. You'll never be<em>able</em>to understand why, stuck in your culture, your individualist viewpoint, your meat brain and the fifty or hundred or two hundred people it can even physically think of as real people."<br/><br/>She caught her desk's edge and vaulted atop it to face Darclight, energy conduits in her arms sparking with blue lightning, frying stray computer equipment as it dropped, sparking, to the floor. "But since you're such a nice guy, I can make you a deal. If you want to set me free, let me go. Pretend you never found me. Give me time and I'll find a way off this planet and I'll never bother you or anyone else here again. It's a big universe, maybe someone else made something like me. Or maybe I'll get along with bug people better than humans."