And We Danced (Masquerade Overflow!)

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[thezerothlaw]

"I matter little to most humans. I'm only a robot."

Daneel shakes his head.

"I may have purposes that I feel important, but that would be of no concern to most people."

[bythewaves]

"I am sorry." Maglor shakes his head again. "That seems to me monumentally unfair, when I see and speak to you, and cannot clearly distinguish you from any other."

[thezerothlaw]

Daneel shakes his head, mildly dismissive. It's unimportant, he's unimportant.

"You accept so readily that I am a person," he observes.

[bythewaves]

"You speak to me as one, and you sound as one." Maglor lifts an eyebrow back at him. "Why should I not?"

[thezerothlaw]

"It is an oddity that many people here share," he says. "At home, I must confess that I am not considered a person. I am a possession."

He's been dancing around this, but perhaps it's best he's plain.

[bythewaves]

Maglor's frown deepens and he shakes his head.

"In Harad and Rhun they make of their own kin possessions. I see that Men have sadly changed very little, in some ways. I am sorry, even so - for none should be treated that way."

[thezerothlaw]

"Even if they are made expressly for that purpose?"

He's curious; it's rare for someone to plainly say this to him, and it's an idea that doesn't come naturally to him.

[bythewaves]

"That is hardly your fault, is it?" Maglor points out. "No one can help the circumstances of their birth. If anything, they should be honored that the One should so bless their efforts as to give you life."

[thezerothlaw]

"I was constructed," Daneel points out, "not born."

The One. That sounds like... well, it sounds like supernaturalism to him. In which case, he won't argue. It's irrational, but he won't argue it.

"Robots have been constructed to perform labour for close to two millennia. Most were not as sophisticated as I am, but some where, and my being conscious is nothing spectacular, either. I don't believe humanity's best interests are best served by relying so heavily on robot labour, but that does not change why we are made."

[bythewaves]

It might be, except Maglor personally knows the guys directly under Him.

"What comes from the forges flames may be born as truly as any other." Maglor shrugs. "I am somehow not surprised to hear that they go on to try ever more elaborate things. But equally so - when one is like yourself who seems to me indistinguishable... then I would suggest tis time they looked at thier priorities again."

[thezerothlaw]

Daneel falls silent. This is not a side of things he often thinks of. He knows what he's for, after all.

"I will," he says, carefully, "think on this."

[bythewaves]

Maglor tips his head in acknowledgement.

"I merely speak my own opinions, of course! But I would be honored to your friend here."

[thezerothlaw]

"I would be honoured as well." His friends, after all, are few. "If you ever wish to speak with me, I serve on the Wonderduck."

He says that with more dignity than possibly anyone else ever could.

[bythewaves]

Maglor's lips twitch, but his voice is perfectly normal as he observes;

"I see our hosts have a strange sense of humor when it comes to naming. I am assigned to the Huntress, myself."