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Post by Jess on Apr 18, 2008 0:04:29 GMT -5
It didn't quite seem like the android was capable of stopping... "Mistress... I-I-I...d-didn't u-understand..." And shes wiping her face into the cloak, "W-Why did he have to d-die! D-dorothy d-didn't mean to kill...j-just defend..."
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Post by Novalyyn on Apr 18, 2008 0:32:20 GMT -5
Nyx frowned and tried to think of what she could say. This was all even less expected than the violence.
"Dorothy, I assumed from back in the tunnels that you were aware of how strong your body is - and how most organic bodies aren't." As she spoke, she started turned turned on the faucet to fill the oversized bathtub. "I would also have figured you knew something of humanoid bodies, like how we need our throats intact to breath. And yet you didn't understand that your actions would kill that being?"
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Post by Jess on Apr 18, 2008 0:44:10 GMT -5
Dorothy shakes her head, each word like a whip as she winces. "Mistress no...d-dont kill me..." And shes sobbing even more as she lets go of Chaser and...curls up into a corner. Apparently the water reminded her of something... "I-I-I...d-didn't realize...w-what I was d-doing... it just...h-happend..."
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Post by Novalyyn on Apr 18, 2008 1:44:34 GMT -5
"Kill you? If I wanted to be rid of you, I'd sell you." Chaser looked at the android and shook her head. "Come back here, we need to get you cleaned up. I'm not going to hurt you." She sighed. "As for what you did, you'll just have to keep it in mind so it doesn't happen again."
Briefly, she had to wonder if she could just tell Dorothy to forget the event. But then... something that is not remembered cannot be learned from, and so it might very well happen again. Dorothy would have to live with it.
Live? The machine... feared death...? Was that even possible?
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Post by Jess on Apr 18, 2008 19:35:26 GMT -5
Dorothy sobs a little and stands to walk over to her mistress, "I t-thought...acid..." A nod, "T-thats how the creators p-punished..." Eyes go wide for a moment before she blinks and looks into the eyes of her new mistress, a smile coming to her lips there after. Of course, it doesn't last to long... as she is wrapping her arms around the woman again, "What is this f-feeling mistress?"
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Post by Novalyyn on Apr 18, 2008 20:30:42 GMT -5
Nyx blinked and almost fell back into the tub. "Uh, I don't know... I'm not psychic, you know." Jeez, this thing was all over the place. "I assure you, this isn't acid - just water. Now hop in and get that blood off. Please, you're getting more on me."
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Post by Jess on Apr 18, 2008 20:37:32 GMT -5
Dorothy nodded and removed her cloak in order to fold it up and place it on a nearby table. Climbing into the tub, she sat down and turned to face Chaser. "Mistress... why do I feel... obligated to... I don't know how to describe it? It is like..." She looks away for a moment before nodding, "It is like, I feel safe when I am around you. More so, I feel obligated to attempt to make you happy... can you explain what I am feeling?"
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Post by Novalyyn on Apr 18, 2008 23:29:40 GMT -5
Chaser made a noise something like a grunt and locked the door before answering. "Doesn't sound like anything I've ever felt. Maybe it's just... whatever weird programming you have." Affection was just one more thing that the android shouldn't really be capable of. Yes, it had to be the programing... after all, everything else about Dorothy was beyond anything previously known. But, Nyx had to wonder, to what point?
She removed her own cloak and washed the damp spots in the sink, knowing that that would be where blood had gotten. She'd give it a proper washing later on; fortunately, the thing was black, so it didn't make the cloth look much different. Nyx didn't bother with the remains of Dorothy's cloak, though; especially since it was going to soon be replaced, it didn't have enough on it to bother with.
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Post by Jess on Apr 19, 2008 22:55:40 GMT -5
Dorothy quickly washed the blood off of her hands and body, quietly resigning the fact that there was clearly...something wrong with her. "I shouldn't feel this way... I know...but..." She looks off, "Deo what is wrong with me..." And she is zoning out again.
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Post by Novalyyn on Apr 19, 2008 23:48:19 GMT -5
"Wrong?" Chaser looked over. "Dorothy, I don't think there's any way to know if anything is wrong with you. So far as I know, nothing like you has ever existed."
She squeezed the water out of the spots she'd cleaned, then shook the thing to straighten it so she could put it back on. "You about done?"
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Post by Jess on Apr 20, 2008 18:27:30 GMT -5
"I am finished..." Dorothy says with a nod as the soaking wet android climbs out of the tub... still dripping. some of the unwashed blood slides down her leg in a red swirling line... "But... I... don't understand." A nod, "I think I am feeling...affection? But that is a human emotion...should it not be alien to me?"
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Post by Novalyyn on Apr 20, 2008 20:35:53 GMT -5
"Yeah, but like I said, it's probably just part of your programming. Here, dry off." Chaser grabbed a towel from the rack and tossed it at the android.
"Machines are designed to take care of people, for the most part. Maybe whatever it is running you does that by making it seem you care. Stranger that you question it, probably."
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Post by Jess on Apr 20, 2008 20:45:02 GMT -5
Dorothy nods and dries off, "It is as if I love you like a human child would love its mother..." A nod, "It...feels like that to me..." And shes looking at Chaster for a moment before shaking her head, finishing the pat down of her outer chasis.
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Post by Novalyyn on Apr 20, 2008 21:26:03 GMT -5
"You wouldn't know of such a thing, so do not speak of it," Nyx said, perhaps a little harsher than she'd intended to. She tossed the remains of the purple cloak back to Dorothy. "Put that back on, it'll have to do until we can replace it. Hopefully no one will pay much attention..."
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Post by Jess on Apr 21, 2008 0:55:13 GMT -5
Dorothy nods as her cloak is shrugged on, the veil covering her head and face from view, but... most of her skantily clad chasis was still visible through the tattered fabric. The Android nods, "Tell me what you need mistress I am built to serve..." She bows her head... somethin had changed within her again...
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