[For a second, he's shocked enough that he stops paying attention to the microbots creeping over him. He nearly drops the soldering iron. He keeps looking for a trick or some hidden transmitter or something, but there isn't one. The microbots are just...responding, moving on their own without one. And Callaghan himself looks...awful. He almost wants to sympathize, a little, because whatever's going on is clearly taking its toll on the man, but he's still too bitter and shoves that thread of sympathy down.
His brows furrow together, and he frowns.]
No, that's not - you think this is my fault? I didn't design them to do that! How am I supposed to know what you might've done to, to, I dunno, screw them up?
[He flings a hand out, palm up, questioning - really? And it's a little desperate and scared, because he doesn't want to believe that he might have created something that's gone this horribly wrong.]
They're just supposed to respond to what you want them to create, and only through the transmitter. That's it. This shouldn't even be happening.
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[For a second, he's shocked enough that he stops paying attention to the microbots creeping over him. He nearly drops the soldering iron. He keeps looking for a trick or some hidden transmitter or something, but there isn't one. The microbots are just...responding, moving on their own without one. And Callaghan himself looks...awful. He almost wants to sympathize, a little, because whatever's going on is clearly taking its toll on the man, but he's still too bitter and shoves that thread of sympathy down.
His brows furrow together, and he frowns.]
No, that's not - you think this is my fault? I didn't design them to do that! How am I supposed to know what you might've done to, to, I dunno, screw them up?
[He flings a hand out, palm up, questioning - really? And it's a little desperate and scared, because he doesn't want to believe that he might have created something that's gone this horribly wrong.]
They're just supposed to respond to what you want them to create, and only through the transmitter. That's it. This shouldn't even be happening.