She's split between letting Lal talk about that alternative timeline and demanding she move on from it, to be honest. If she's anything like her father though, she needs to talk it out. She'll willingly listen, even when her stories threaten to break her heart with their isolation. Lal's positronic mind clearly craved stimuli, and not in the same way as what she was used to from Data. Hers was more...starved. That was it. She latched onto novelty and new ideas like Tasha had been in awe of replicators and showers when she first escaped. It was as if the whole concept of never having to just fight to get through a day - to feel full, clean, and honest - was both a relief and a terror. The terror came from the idea it would all just disappear and drop them back off where they had been.
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She's split between letting Lal talk about that alternative timeline and demanding she move on from it, to be honest. If she's anything like her father though, she needs to talk it out. She'll willingly listen, even when her stories threaten to break her heart with their isolation. Lal's positronic mind clearly craved stimuli, and not in the same way as what she was used to from Data. Hers was more...starved. That was it. She latched onto novelty and new ideas like Tasha had been in awe of replicators and showers when she first escaped. It was as if the whole concept of never having to just fight to get through a day - to feel full, clean, and honest - was both a relief and a terror. The terror came from the idea it would all just disappear and drop them back off where they had been.