Call it a bit of an open wound, and don’t poke it and we’ll be fine.

[ hmmm. ]

Kinda, I guess. Ordine can talk, has opinions and can offer advice. Pretty sure if he didn’t want to do what I was doing, he’d say so but…. there’s also an element of I’m his Awakener so he follows my lead. I’d call him a partner rather than a machine, y’know?