"People are going to get hurt either way," Connor insisted. "Chaos always brings pain." Of course, androids were already getting hurt. But that doesn't matter. They're not alive, it doesn't matter.

...stupid Nautilus and that weird switching places storm nonsense, he keeps thinking what he said as a human. What he's pretty sure Hank feels. It shouldn't matter what Hank feels. Its not true. He just had to keep reminding himself that.

Of course Connor doesn't intend to point out robot telepathy does work with the smart phone. And after being changed twice, he finally gets the point. If he lost the ability to connect wirelessly, such as a storm, he wouldn't be able to connect to the Network at all. Thus an external device as a proxy.

He'll let Markus figure that out on his own.

But at least he has no gun. He only ignored the law when he had a specific plan for the gun's use. So everytime he's gotten a weapon, he's ditched it and by the time he came to regret that tendency, he hasn't gotten a weapon that's easy to carry.

"Follow me," Connor said, turning and starting to walk. He knew of a few emptt buildings in the area. The population was too low to avoid such occurrences, but its useful now. And walking there gives him time to think.