[ Murderbot isn't detecting any foreign chemicals in its bloodstream, and it had been the organic parts of its brain that had been affected.

Its diagnostics must be fucking up, thats all.

Any alternative theory it can cook up is too terrifying to contemplate, right now. So it's just not going to.

Problem solved?

It doesn't turn its head to look at Castiel with its organic eyes, now closed. But its watching him through several drones. ]

Well, I'm a terrifying [ murderbot ] SecUnit. What are you?

[ Surely, that fancy title earlier isn't it. 'Angel' shows up in a tiny bit of its media archives, but they look nothing like this guy.

It also runs back drone footage of itself collapsing. Like it had warned, if Castiel had done anything creepy to it, it would have known. ]

A normal human definitely would have fallen down, trying to catch me like that.