Camilla glossed over the compliment. Of course she was attractive; everyone thought so; it was an aesthetic judgement as close to objective as any matter of aesthetics could be. As for gender, it was really beside the point. She'd been the only woman in a social group of men for ages. She'd socialised more with women at Hogwarts than at any other time in her life. "If you do feel uncomfortable, I can go," she offered.
She toyed with her glass as he expounded on robots, programming, control. "The idea of fate displeases you because you don't want to believe yourself subject to programming. But isn't that what drives us all? If nothing else, we possess human instincts, whether or not we permit ourselves to express them -- whether or not, conversely, we have built such walls of self-control around ourselves that we can be permitted that expression. But, then, you don't like the idea that anything could control you in the way you control your robots. Do you enjoy the feeling of controlling them?"
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Date: 2007-06-21 12:55 am (UTC)She toyed with her glass as he expounded on robots, programming, control. "The idea of fate displeases you because you don't want to believe yourself subject to programming. But isn't that what drives us all? If nothing else, we possess human instincts, whether or not we permit ourselves to express them -- whether or not, conversely, we have built such walls of self-control around ourselves that we can be permitted that expression. But, then, you don't like the idea that anything could control you in the way you control your robots. Do you enjoy the feeling of controlling them?"