Arthur: Who the hell are you? Where's Anat?
Arthur: Busy? How do you get to be 'busy' when you control time?
Operator: Anat is very talented. But she knows you have work yet undone. You will need an operator.
Arthur: So you're the other one. The child soldier, Eleanor calls you.
Operator: I am the other one.
Arthur: So what do we call you? We've already got one Anat.
Operator: One is enough. I am Tenno. You may call me Tenno.
Arthur: Right. Is that a common name in the future?
Operator: [thin smile] Not any more.
Arthur: ...right. You've been briefed?
Operator: I am aware of the parameters of your mission. Pursue and defile a terrestrial motive hardpoint. A 'tank.'
Arthur: Close enough. So--are you coming with? Do you...do the thing Anat does?
Operator: You will need to carry me. Do you have a suitable harness?
Arthur: Uh--we can look--
Operator: I thought a joke might ease your suspicions.
Arthur: Ha. So how does this work? Do we need to--talk?
Operator: You are a soldier.
Operator: I am a soldier, too. That will be enough for us.
Operator: My first warframe was Excalibur-clade. Your brain and bone do not remember me, but the technocyte in your body will.
Operator: It is a honorable strain you bear. The first Excalibur-clade warframes were Dax. He taught me much. He was...a good man, before he was implanted with the virus.
Operator: He was no longer a man.
Arthur: Am I going to have to worry about that?
Arthur: Because it's not going to happen?
Operator: Because there is nothing to be done if it does.
Arthur: I don't suppose you have any more jokes?
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