"It is on me to make sure I'm ready to take responsibility for them, isn't it?"
Theo forced a small, knowing smile on his face, doing his best to somehow make himself easy to sympathize with for a purpose that ran in perfect counter to what one would normally hope for by acting the way he did.
Right now, Theo was reaching beyond his limit.
He had already reached his limits by pushing himself to do everything all at once, all in a bid to save some time. From analyzing the structure of the books, having the nanites translate that into the content of the books the hive could understand, having the text integrated and meshed with the rest of the knowledge base of this world, and then slowly building a network of mental hyperlinks to properly integrate all of this newly gained knowledge into Theo's common sense…
