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Topic Started: Jun 20 2010, 06:41 AM (176 Views)
Kye
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Blue. Of course Andi knew what colors were, but... she had never seen them before, never really looked. She never felt the need to appreciate them - or appreciate anything as a matter of fact. Why? The foreign sky looked identical to her own. The air smelled different, unlike the various animals smells of the stables to the sickly clean smell of the recharging cells. Sickly? Had she really thought that? Compared to this, at least.

The newly arrived female continued to lay on her back and watch the sky as wisps of clouds drifted lazily by. Her hair looked a bit shaggy after being transported across the galaxy randomly by an incorporeal improbability field seemingly possessing a mind of its own. Not an easy journey, to be sure. Especially not when so many things changed along the way. Previously inert sections of her artificially grown and enhanced brain awakened without any warning. The little neurons that had grown used to paid unemployment got off of their behinds, turned off the television and began working for the first time. As expected, they were a bit clumsy and slow, but they would learn, eventually. New neural pathways opened up where none had existed before and through them raced alien entities - thoughts and feelings outside of what she was programmed to think and feel. For now, they were focused on the newly discovered visual input - aesthetics of the world the neurons who were previously content to watch re-runs of I Love Broca had never seen before in Andi's entire life.

In the meantime, the former android remained sprawled on her back with crazy hair, staring at the sky with a look of wonderment. If anyone didn't know better - and, really, who would? - and he or she was familiar with certain smokable drugs, Andi would looked stoned out of her mind. She wore the typical uniform of the androids - a white jumpsuit with blue stripes along the seams and the company that created her's logo on the back. It was stained a bit with the dust and dirt of her homeworld as she had been cleaning out a newly emptied stall only minutes before.
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She was in a real pickle here, a real real pickle... With the attack on the inn she couldn’t keep working there. They couldn’t afford to pity-employ a little girl anymore. Which meant she needed to find someplace else to stay. So far she’d curled up with her bonded in the woods, near the town proper. Alice needed time to think and she needed help thinking this through. What did she have for options? Well that’s why she had Sootkin with her. He seemed to be the most helpful with this sort of thing... When he wasn’t teasing her.

Today the chavo was in a good, helpful mood. Well, he wasn’t in a good mood, infact he was frazzled, nervous and scared. What were they suppose to do?! So many mouthes to feed, so many bonded! Of course they would tolerate one another for their bonded; they were apart of her but to have two humans and all their bondeds together? The idea stressed the little chavo out to no end. He could suck it up, for Alice, but what of the wyvern? What of that anta?

The two were walking, trying to find a good place to just sit and talk, to be alone. It was early enough in the day that the grass was still wet with dew, Sootkin’s paws and Alice’s shoes and the hems of her pants were soaked as they walked, both deep in their own thoughts as they walked.

The smaller creature was trotting on ahead, not paying a lick of attention where he was going,a s he assumed the grounds were void of life. He was proven wrong when he tripped over a human limb, falling to the ground with a fox-like squeak of surprise.

The emotion fed through their bond and Alice turned, also jumping as she was jarred from her worries.
“Sootkin! You okay?” She asked, walking towards him and the strange woman sprawled on the grass.
”He is fine,” Sootkin said, his mind voice projected to Alice and the woman on the ground, ”Sorry gadjo... Is the gadjo fine?”

Alice, following Sootkin, scooted over to the strange woman’s side. She was... pretty. Or bland. Could she be both? How weird. She looked almost too human, or not human enough. Alice couldn’t put her finger on it.
“That’s a weird suit... Are you new?”

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A physical sensation in her left arm caught Andi's attention, though she was slow to react. Blinking slowly as if for the first time, she sat up carefully and peered at the furry creature that caused it. Back on her homeworld, she was in charge of many creatures. None looked like this. She did not know it. She didn't know what to think about not knowing something. She did not know what to think about the ability to not know what to think. She did not know what to think about even having things to not think about. It was a concept that floored her, and her brain resolved to stare at the thing blankly and ponder for a little bit.

Well-conditioned sections of her brain ordered her to take the creature, whatever it was, and put it back in its cage, stall, pen, wherever it's kept. Those orders followed the chain of command until they crossed new, unfamiliar paths where fat, lazy neurons, already over-burdened with the work of rebuilding vast information highways and constructing a personality from scratch, promptly vetoed the unreasonable commands and went about their business - though they did think it strange that previously she was not given the choice.

The little vulpine creature was recorded into memory and her mind got to work comparing it to more familiar animals - okay, it has the tail of this, the eyes of this, the appendage bone structure of this type of animal... - so she could better decide how to proceed. Shortly thereafter, some neurons from the aural department knocked on her consciousness's door and reported some interesting news - the creature appeared to have the ability of speech and so did its keeper which up to that point she had ignored entirely. One automatic action managed to get through the complicated, under-construction web and exit through her mouth:

"Hello. My name is Andi from Bioinnovations," she said, addressing both entities. "This suit is my uniform given to me by Bioinnovations. I am a livestock supervisor. I have been working at Bioinnovations for seven years now, thank you. How are you today?" The words contained the appropriate inflection (adjusted to English by the PIF, thank goodness), but they also possessed the characteristic lack of emotion that androids were known for. Her mouth and face muscles moved, but in a sort of trained, practiced way that appeared fake. And, because this response took absolutely no thought, her eyes stared at Alice herself the whole time, taking her in. All-in-all, Andi seemed incredibly bizarre.

But then! A change went across her face as muscles responded to new commands given by the emotional centers of her brain. What appeared to be genuine curiosity accompanied by the stress of newly-felt confusion replaced the previous programmed reactions and she spoke - truly spoke - for the first time; "What is this?" she asked Alice, motioning towards the furry creature.
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The gadjo was quiet for an amount of time that made it strange, Sootkin’s ears going back.
”Perhaps the gad-!!!” He jumped back when the woman-thing smoke, all four legs leaving the ground propelling him backwards maybe half a foot, fur raised. Something was wrong with this human-thing.

Alice, following Sootkin and the same sort of feeling of wrong, also took a step back. Her home planet did not have androids (or at least, if they did they weren’t known of to the general public) so the alien way she spoke of herself was, well, scary. The woman spoke robotically, even if the feeling was in her voice, it didn’t sound right and she said... bio-whatever too often; a sort of advertisement. But she didn’t seem to be dangerous, just weird so Alice didn’t turn tail, she kept her ground. Isnit Weyrd was... well it was weird! She’d seen stranger things.

“I’m okay...” Alice said, answering the strange woman’s first question, Sootkin tried to relax a bit, his skin crawling. She was so wrong, how could Alice stand it?!
But the second question, the look on her face... It was a real emotion and Alice relaxed, Sootkin following. Oh good, maybe she was just scared and in shock. That made sense, right?

Though Sootkin didn’t like being called “this” he gave the strange woman thing the benefit of the doubt, ”He is Sootkin, a romani fox of chavo rank. The gadjo seems confused, have you just come here?”
Alice quipped in, knowing that, if she was new to Isnit, she would probably have trouble understanding what all of that meant.
“I’m Alice and this is Sootkin, he’s like um... a really good friend.” She almost said pet but that was wrong. There really was a much deeper connection then any pet could give.
“Are you new here?” Alice asked. It was better not to assume, assuming could get you into trouble on Planet. Sootkin, meanwhile, licked his lips in a fox like manner, looking nervous. Alice had been attacked by a new Planet arrival before. Sootkin had jumped in, fought off the attacker and they got away. But Sootkin was still nervous. What if it happened again? What if she couldn’t get away next time? So he sat, front paws rising and falling in a nervous sort of dance. He hated this. Not the strange, strange woman who felt wrong but was now acting semi-normal but the fact that he didn’t know her and what she was capable of. The PIF didn’t always bring good people here, anyone could be brought over. Anyone.

Alice was trying to be careful too, watching for any signs of hostility or just... something strange. The initial off feeling of this woman had her on edge, but she tried hard not to show it.
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