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[When the video pops on, there is this unusual face. No, it isn't a mask. This is who - and what - he actually is. But he is also offering a smile, a gesture of no harm intended, yes? He's expecting a wide variety of reactions, but he has come to know that humans like smiles as well as he does.]

It is far past time that I made myself known and offered my greetings. My name is Wing, and I am what you might call a living machine. My kind are called Cybertronians. None who I have met here so far seem to know what that is, so I think I may be the first of my kind to set foot in this city. If I am mistaken, feel free to let me know.

[Please let him know?] In any case, I'll be assisting you in the Perimeter Guard on patrols and such, wherever help is needed, whatever help is needed. If you should require anything, please don't hesitate to ask. My weapons are my blades and I know them well, but I am not here purely for combat. I was once a go-to for guidance on other matters among my kind.

Thank you for hearing me, and for letting me live here in peace.

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[He doesn't mind at all. He was prepared for questions, and he has as many of them about humans as she must have about him.]

Sometimes, I find that the differences between you are the best part about someone. I've never met a human before I came here, but I think I'm going to like them. But... I'm not sure if the portal did anything to me, physically, besides bring me to a new world. Maybe it did, maybe it didn't. I don't feel any different.

Well, everyone is different in some ways, who wants to be exactly like someone else?

*Says the girl who goes out of her way to look noticeable.*

My friends had robot lions show up through the portal, but apparently the portal shrunk them. I guess you wouldn't know if you don't know how a human scales against you...

There's the question. I know I certainly don't. [Sometimes, you just have to be!]

It is possible. For everything I know, I shouldn't be here right now. I should be dead. [Those last moments are hazy, but he remembers the blow, he remembers a searing pain, then... something... and then he was here without a scratch.] I was among a group of my kind who were... isolated from the rest of our people. If one of the others outside of my city has ever met a human, they could tell me, but I may be the only Cybertronian here.

Probably, someone your height would be super easy to spot. I mean, they could post to the network using only voice or text? I guess... because you're face is very distinct, and I know I've never seen a face like it before.

On the other hand a lot of town isn't really... sized, for the super super tall. But if I was the only one of me on this moon I'd jump at the chance to say hi to even people from home I didn't like that much.

*Lola misses home a lot.*

[He nods, looking her face over with new care, not for the first time. It won't cease to fascinate him that everything about humans and organic life is so... flexible.]

Understandably so. It wasn't hard to figure out how to communicate to the city itself through the network. The technology is very similar in concept to what we had on a global scale on my home planet. I can't see it being any more difficult for someone else like me to have made themselves known to your people in all of this time. Still, unique though I may be, I'm no less for the experience. I do like it here.

Well, you kinda are technology, wouldn't other technology be easy?

*Give her a moment.*

Although I guess I'm biology and I suck at biology. So maybe not. I'm glad you like it here, it's better than hating it. Although... what do you do with your time, you can't go to like a coffee shop or anything.

[He grins and has a soft chuckle at that, glad she picked up on it herself. It's not quite so easy to explain, but when put that way...]

It can be, but you are right, I don't immediately know everything there is to know about the technology here. I just do what I can. Say... exploring. I try to stay off the main roads and look around the city, meet new people and hope I don't frighten them. So far, that's gone well. And they keep me as a sort of officer on the Perimeter Guard here when I'm on shift. That's where I spend most of my time.

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