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[sentiences]

[ The video pans across one of the communal rooms before centering on Dorian. He looks overwhelmed and thrilled at the same time. ]

Okay, so this is amazing. I have a room with a bed — and I'm not entirely sure what they expect me to do with that. Also my own chair! It's a sweet deal.

[ Seriously. A chair. His own space. Let the android have his moment okay. ]

Unfortunately, I don't think my charging station came with me on the trip here. Does anyone know anyone technically minded or with a large amount of appliances and scrap? I kind of need it so I don't run out of power. Low charges are hellish.

I can pay you? I think I get wages now. Amazing.

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[kievs]

okay

i'll remember that

(It is reassuring, to have the option.)

if you get in trouble you can call me too

[sentiences]

Absolutely. I scare easy. I'll be counting on you.

[kievs]

right

i know youre taking the piss out of me. im not a fucking child

[sentiences]

Is that bad? Being a child? I always thought it was amazing. Being able to grow and learn over the years.

And I do get scared. Like everyone else.

[kievs]

maybe its alright if you dont spent it in a useless fucking town full of squares
or until you outgrow being cute and everybody stops giving a shit

why would somebody program a robot to get scared
being scared sucks

[sentiences]

Because you can't have one emotion. You need all of them. That's what makes you you.

I hear that's what adulthood is about.

[kievs]

(That at least makes sense.)

i guess

(Alyssa wishes sometimes that she didn't get angry so easily and lose it and swear at people. Especially people who are just trying to be nice, really. She stares at her phone for ages, frowning. Her next text comes a solid minute later.)

sorry

[sentiences]

It's all right. Your experiences matter. I'm sorry growing up in a square town was difficult.

[kievs]

its not literally a square town its a town filled with squares

people who are really boring

[sentiences]

How were they boring?

[kievs]

theyre all the same. nobodys doing anything exciting or new or interesting its all just
go to school do your work come home again do absolutely nothing there
rinse and repeat until you die
being there felt like i was spending all my time waiting for something exciting to happen

[sentiences]

Do you know what that something should be?

[kievs]

i know what it *did* end up being
but go on then what *should* it have been?

[sentiences]

I don't think I'm the best person to guess.

[kievs]

i thought you meant you

never mind. i left to go find my dad

[sentiences]

What happened to him?

[kievs]

he moved away from my mum and i when i was little
i know where he lives i just

(sigh)

i was actually almost there but now im... here

[sentiences]

I'm sorry.

That must have been difficult. Especially since he was close by.

[kievs]

(She'd literally been standing outside his door, plagued with doubt, and then she'd woken up here. She still doesn't know how to feel about it. Like, it's kind of a reprieve on one hand, but on the other it's sort of torture.)

yeah

do you have parents? i guess not huh

[sentiences]

I have . . . something like a father. A creator.

[kievs]

right
whats your creator like?

[sentiences]

I don't know. I only met him briefly.

But he hurt a lot of people.

[kievs]

oh

(That's tricky.)

sorry. thats bullshit

[sentiences]

So I've been told.

[ But it still bothers him. That the person that made him could be so . . . ]

[kievs]

you know that doesnt reflect on you right

even if he made you that doesnt make you him