Token

For Ven:

He was born in the depths of an underground base, awareness granted only with the thrum of electricity in his veins. What was once broken was made whole, bits of scrap metal painstakingly welded and hammered together with the proficiency of a child. Unpolished, a rough work at best, but functional, though he did not truly gain consciousness until she took him by the hand, and gave him a 'heart'.

Data transferal in progress... 1%

Data transferal in progress... 24%

Data transferal in progress... 65%

Data transferal in progress... 100%

Data transferal complete. Rebooting system...

"He reminded me of you, Kourai." It wasn't hard to see why, given the common pearlcatcher base - she'd even gone to the lengths of giving him a proper pearl and polishing it to a shine. "I couldn't just leave him there like that," she continued, gesturing helplessly at the little robot now perched on her worktop bench, "and I just...I thought you could use the company, you know?"

"I also added a few things for you to look at," she explained. Her toothy grin split into something wider as she waved her friend over, pressing a single button at the very top of the pearl clutched in his claws. A holographic screen display popped up, a single word projected across the surface of the pearl itself, before it began scrolling through various images of them

Memories!


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