You don't think I could handle myself? [9S doesn't believe that's the sum total of what Jude's thinking, but...] Before I was assigned to work with 2B, I was always in the field alone.
[He didn't like it, of course. It was frightening, and it was lonely, but he managed nevertheless, just like any Scanner would]
no subject
[He didn't like it, of course. It was frightening, and it was lonely, but he managed nevertheless, just like any Scanner would]