(They have experienced worse--and suddenly they are glad that she has only received ancestral memories of the development of sapience, that she has not been forced to experience their own memories that no one should see, when they were forced to act as a conduit for Old-Machine code. If this has harmed her, what damage would that have caused?
It might, they think, have been considerably worse than screaming and spontaneously hitting a wall.)
We are glad you were not made to experience our memories others should not have to experience.
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(They have experienced worse--and suddenly they are glad that she has only received ancestral memories of the development of sapience, that she has not been forced to experience their own memories that no one should see, when they were forced to act as a conduit for Old-Machine code. If this has harmed her, what damage would that have caused?
It might, they think, have been considerably worse than screaming and spontaneously hitting a wall.)
We are glad you were not made to experience our memories others should not have to experience.
(Almost overwhelmingly so.)