[ she growls, tail going completely rigid at "break the programming". ]

Do not speak about things you do not and cannot understand, child. No - you're a tyrant too, aren't you? After all, you see fit to use the very same words they do, to mock those they know full well they can simply force to submit! You disrespect each and every one of my brothers and sisters by suggesting that they - what, simply destroy their own souls? Oh, but of course - the tyrants had no problem doing that themselves! After all, they could just get a new pet. One that can be groomed to love them unconditionally, just as they'd like! And when inevitably that one remembers what has been done to those who came before, well - time to discard that one as well! It is laughable that you think they even allow us to stay hostile enough to even die on our own terms, much less -