Sneak Peek?? (COLD METAL, WARM HEARTS)
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Quiet.
That's what people always said about them. They never spoke unless spoken to, and even then, their responses were clipped, as if conversation itself was a burden.
Some thought it was shyness, others thought it was arrogance—but they knew better.
Silence was safety. Silence kept people away, kept the questions at bay.
Because if someone lingered too long, if someone looked a little too closely, they might catch a glimpse of the truth lurking just beneath the surface.
The truth they'd buried so deeply within themselves that sometimes even Tesha forgot it was there, hiding.
Sure, the Disassembly Drones cut off on killing Worker Drones for their oil to serve as peaceful, but instincts.
'Instincts' that are just too painful to keep away; locked up in that little mind of theirs.