"So…" The smile spreading across Connor's face is like a force of nature, unstoppable. "You wanna go into business together?"
The smile becomes a delighted sort of laugh, a feeling so intense it can't stay inside him, he can't contain it. He recognises it - excitement, true, actual hope, anticipation for the future that he's never really had before. He hasn't known what it would be, hasn't been able to place himself in it with any more than vague impressions. Now, he sees that place forming, concrete and real.
And that place involves something that could really help people, really help not only androids, but the humans who want to spend their lives with them. Connor couldn't build a new society or negotiate rights - that's Markus's role. But he can find justice for those who have never been allowed it. He and Hank both.
"I think there'll be real demand for that when we go back," he says, voice a little strained with the emotion, the excitement, bit steady all the same. "Missing people, victims of hate crime, androids who don't feel like they have a place in society or don't know where to turn. We both know people with connections, there has to be a lot we can do with that."
Androids in Connor's place, humans in Hank's. Between them, they can be something of a bridge between two worlds as they come together a bit at a time.
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The smile becomes a delighted sort of laugh, a feeling so intense it can't stay inside him, he can't contain it. He recognises it - excitement, true, actual hope, anticipation for the future that he's never really had before. He hasn't known what it would be, hasn't been able to place himself in it with any more than vague impressions. Now, he sees that place forming, concrete and real.
And that place involves something that could really help people, really help not only androids, but the humans who want to spend their lives with them. Connor couldn't build a new society or negotiate rights - that's Markus's role. But he can find justice for those who have never been allowed it. He and Hank both.
"I think there'll be real demand for that when we go back," he says, voice a little strained with the emotion, the excitement, bit steady all the same. "Missing people, victims of hate crime, androids who don't feel like they have a place in society or don't know where to turn. We both know people with connections, there has to be a lot we can do with that."
Androids in Connor's place, humans in Hank's. Between them, they can be something of a bridge between two worlds as they come together a bit at a time.