And the AI that got sent to Blood Gulch was the same broken sort of thing the Meta was, once the Director was done with him. With both of them.

[ once sigma had pulled enough strings to ruin them both, but that's the last fragment carolina wants to bring up right now. this moment is bad enough as it is, when she can see wash shutting down but doesn't yet feel like she has her footing well enough to help. ]

They might not have been what Church and Maine were, but I don't think you can blame yourself for one and not the other. That's not fair.