[ carolina's answer is remarkably slow by her standards, confused. alpha in someone's head sounds like the biggest pain in the ass and as much as she's grateful this version of maine has never been manipulated by the ai that was meant to be hers, this is... well, it sure is something.

she opens her mouth, closes it, brows furrowed. takes a second and tries again. ]

Okay. [ is it, though? ] I'm just going to assume he was also kind of annoying to share a head with, so however you managed to limit him being a nosy jerk, the same principle applies to the sharing here.

[ and she has so many questions about this (namely, why?) but they can wait. she'll make them wait. ]