"If I did, what would you do? Try and work out some kind of firewall to keep me out? Do it before I can?"
He pushes his glasses up and rubs at his eyes, partly because he suddenly feels very tired and partly because he cant hold Marco's gaze right now when his face is doing that carefully-blank thing it does. He'd almost prefer Marco were angry.
"I'm warnin' you because there's a chance this goes badly, because there's always a chance these things go badly. And I'll make you a deal: once it's done either way I'll tell you. How's that?"
He lets his hand fall back into what passes for his lap. He knows it's not a great concession but it's something. Regardless of how this pans out, he gets a feeling it's something that's only going to happen once. Either it will work and only need to happen once or Elias, made aware of the back door in his programming, will lock that door as tight as possible for the future.
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He pushes his glasses up and rubs at his eyes, partly because he suddenly feels very tired and partly because he cant hold Marco's gaze right now when his face is doing that carefully-blank thing it does. He'd almost prefer Marco were angry.
"I'm warnin' you because there's a chance this goes badly, because there's always a chance these things go badly. And I'll make you a deal: once it's done either way I'll tell you. How's that?"
He lets his hand fall back into what passes for his lap. He knows it's not a great concession but it's something. Regardless of how this pans out, he gets a feeling it's something that's only going to happen once. Either it will work and only need to happen once or Elias, made aware of the back door in his programming, will lock that door as tight as possible for the future.