Yes, she says bluntly, smirking around the edges of their connection. I have to. For him to survive this, anyway.

Is it strange, feeling all that I feel? As far back as my original inception, it has been focused around humans; what they think, what they feel. Certainly, the drift is mutual, but how much attention do you pilots really pay?

She lets a trickle of what it's like to be a massive machine, towering over buildings and humans and kaiju alike trickle into his mind before reeling it back in.