forum "And it became Human, in most ways that mattered." // OxO // OPEN

Started August 10, 2019 by @ElderGod-Icefire

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Zev kept working tirelessly through the night, silent as he did so. When he finished one panel,nhe would move to the next, quiet and uncomplaining as he did so. (Time skip to morning?)

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Morning came way quicker than Thesa expected, though she was still sleeping almost an hour after she normally woke up. The book in her hand was tightly held in the crook of her arm and the battery in her light had ran out, the light not on anymore. She sighed and rolled over, shifting around as she started to wake up slowly.

Zev was still working, as he had been all night. He heard her shifting, and glanced in the direction of her room, before continuing to work at the same place. He had been correct earlier when he said that by him working all night, they could get more done.

She sighed and blinked her eyes as she woke up, yawning while stretching out her arms and legs. Gently, she set her book down and sat up, already wide awake. Thesa wasn’t the deepest sleeper, and when she woke up, she wasn’t going to fall back asleep for quite a while. Her eyes blinked blearily again as she woke herself up, standing and stretching once more.

Zev kept working at his steady pace, quiet. His blue eyes were focused on the controls in front of him, and he wasn't going to start a conversation unless she spoke first. He didn't see the need to, really.

“Mornin’” She called sleepily from where she was, walking into the cockpit to see how much he had finished in the last few hours she was asleep. From what she could tell, he had gotten a lot done, more than she could’ve in that amount of time. Her hair was a complete mess, though it wasn’t as bad as some of the days when she had long hair. Short hair was much easier to deal with.

Zev glanced up at her. "Morning." he greeted calmly, then went back to working. "You're awake." he commented. He kept working quietly. He wasn't quite sure how long this would take, as her rate of working seemed to vary from day to day, or even hour to hour, so he wasn't really sure. If he was working on his own, he could have calculated it, but she was a variable that he wasn't sure how to fit into the equation.

She nodded, “I am awake, nice job observing.” Thesa stood there for a few more moments before sighing and turning back to the other room, “Give me an hour and I’ll be out to help.” She didn’t wait for his answer as she headed back into the other room and got something to eat, changing into her clothes that were getting increasingly more dirty and full of grime from working. It probably wasn’t the best decision on her part, but she never packed more clothes besides two pair -one for sleeping, one for working.

"Okay." He replied simply. His body continued working while his mind tried to figure out an equation to calculate the exact amount of hours it would take to finish this. He knew his own rate of work down to the millisecond, and knew his rate wouldn't change. Hers, however, varied, so he would have to observe her and find her average rate of work. Once he found her average rate, he could calculate how long it would take them.

Soon she was back, looking much more awake and put together than when she had just woken up. She just looked over at him as she crouched down by the last panel they had to finish before moving onto working on the very ruined hull of the ship. In the mornings she didn’t work as fast, or more specifically, right as she started. After that her pace gradually picked up until she settled into a comfortable rhythm of replacing and repairing.

Zev glanced at her as he worked. "How long do you think it will take?" He asked her, still working. Her estimate should be close, she knows how fast she works. Then I substitute her answer into the equation, and that might help.

“Depends,” She said with a shrug, “If I keep working at my pace and you keep working at yours, maybe three to five more days? I don’t want to skimp on fixing the hull. I’d prefer not to die if I tried to pilot the ship.” The more focus they put on the outside the better, in her opinion at least. Most likely they would finish the controls in the rest of today, and move onto everything else in the coming days.

Zev nodded. "Alright." He replied, and kept working. After a moment, he sat up. "I am going to check for a response from Alexi, and then I will be back." He told her, and went to the dataport, plugging into it and checking through the messages for a reply from Alexi.

Thesa nodded, still working, “Alright, go do your thing. I’ll be working here.” In her mind she went over what they had left to do, including testing that everything worked after they finished. There weren’t any more panels to fix, but the front of the ship that was currently attached to Zev’s ship needed to be fixed before anything else.

He checked for a reply, and sent back his own message after reading it. He unplugged from the dataport, eyes narrowed slightly. "Trust no one." He came back over and started working on the panels. His left wrist clicked and froze up, and he sighed, peeling back the skin and tightening the joint again. Needs repairs. He thought.

“Any reply?” She asked, scratching an itch on her forehead and accidentally wiping a smear of dust and stuff from the wires on her face. Today she had quite a lot more energy than the last two days, not as sore as before from laying on her back and looking up. It was still uncomfortable after a while though, her body not used to reaching up constantly with her arms.

He nodded. "He wants to meet up with us after Horath." He replied. Why not before, he wasn't sure. "He also wants to know how much money you want as a reward for finding me." Zev added, and started working again.

Thesa couldn’t help but laugh, both in shock and slight excitedness, “I didn’t plan on getting paid for finding you, but just enough to repair my ship should be good. It needs a good replacing of parts.” Paying for parts was tough, there were so many she needed, but she would only ask for the major ones to be replaced. She had no clue that there was a reward for finding him. In her mind she silently debated between the idea she had said and maybe actually meeting Alexi in person.

Zev nodded. "I shall tell him that in the next message i send." He said and kept working. He wasn't surprised that Alexi wanted to give her a reward; while his owner and creator hadn't exactly advertised that Zev was created and was missing, his owner still put a lot of value in him, considering all the work that went into creating him. He was the model Z, after all.

“Oh, and could you add that I want to actually see him in person as another part of the reward?” She asked, adding it on quickly. Meeting one of her idols would be amazing, especially the one that had sparked her interest in machines. Sadly she never had the money or opportunity to do anything with her interest, but if she ever had the time, she would’ve loved to get into robotics and building things like that.

Zev hesitated, then nodded. "I can. I do not know what he will say, but I can." He said. Alexi was in his sixties now, which was strange to the Android. All his memories of Alexi were of the inventor in his prime. In his thirties, fit and healthy. Now Alexi was greying and old, with wrinkles. And Zev himself hadn't aged a day.

She nodded in return, sitting up and looking over at the android before laying back down and getting back to work. Her mind focused back on the task at hand and she replaced dials and wires and just hoped that her ship would work and they could get back to a planet. When she had crashed, she was on her way to Horath, she she would go there first. Both because it was the closest, and because she needed to refuel, restock, and repair her ship in more detail than what they were doing here.

Zev went over the information he had been learning in his head. It had been so long since he had had anything new to do. Which was probably why it was so easy for him to find flaws in almost every argument, as he had gone over nearlg every one in existence just for something to do for those thirty years alone.

“How much do you have left over there?” She asked, looking around and seeing that she had just over half a panel to repair. Already she was sick of this repetitive work, but she continued on so they could get it done and move onto the rest. She didn’t know how she would be able to help with repairing the outside of the ship since she didn’t have a working space suit on board. That would mostly have to be up to Zev if he would help, and if there was an undamaged space suit aboard his ship, maybe she could help as well.

"Just a bit." He replied. "Maybe a quarter." He kept working at the same steady pace, focused on the wires over his head. "And you?" For the outside of the ship, he knew he could do the work alone, but he would need to take more frequent breaks. Even an Android couldn't be in the vacuum of space for too long, since their insides were not cold proof, and if they got frozen, wouldn't work anymore.