[ Anderson assumes by default that no one's trying to be friendly with her, so if there's liable to be mixed signals, it's absolutely going to be the other way. If anything, she's remarkably slow on the uptake for normal social overtures about her genuine well-being. ]
Yeah. Some people... probably don't have much to leave behind. [ She's not actually talking about herself, here; she's picturing all the people whose minds she's read at home, and what had driven them to their crimes. Or the thoughts she'd seen in reluctant witnesses. Anderson knows that a lot of people in Mega-City One really have nothing left to lose. ]
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Yeah. Some people... probably don't have much to leave behind. [ She's not actually talking about herself, here; she's picturing all the people whose minds she's read at home, and what had driven them to their crimes. Or the thoughts she'd seen in reluctant witnesses. Anderson knows that a lot of people in Mega-City One really have nothing left to lose. ]