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

Started August 10, 2019 by @ElderGod-Icefire

tune

Softly she started humming, wiping away dust from some of the less used controls and going silent.

(alright, don't worry about it)

Zev continued working, moving to the next damaged bulb. His chest was still rising and falling with each "breath".

"So, tell Zev, what was it like to be alive thirty years ago? Do you remember any important events?" She asked, breaking the silence and glancing over at him as she worked.

Zev blinked. "I am not technically alive, remember? And…I did not pay much attention to the news. There were other things that Alexi was teaching me. But I do remember hearing more and more about the war."

Thesa shrugged, "I'm going to keep saying you're alive, because it seems like you are, ok?" She nodded as he continued on, "So what did Alexi teach you? Anything good or important?"

He cocked his head slightly. "I…some of that information I cannot tell you." He replied slowly. "But yes. He taught me a lot about how the world works, manners, necessary things."

"Understandable," She replied with another nod, "I would think Alexi would share things with you that he couldn't or wouldn't share with anyone else."

Zev nodded. "Yes." He replied simply, remembering quite a few things that he had been told that he could not share. With anyone.

Thesa looked around, shrugging, 'I mean, that's a good idea, that way if he ever forgot, he could rely on you, since you would never forget anything he told you." A small smile flicked onto her face as she remembered the one private secret she had been told to keep, and she didn't plan on sharing it anytime soon.

Zev nodded. "Yes. That is one benefit to an Android: we never forget anything." He shrugged slightly, and moved to the next light.

She nodded, wandering out to the storage room now to organize, "Yeah, human minds suck at remembering things, that's on thing I'm jealous of that you have."

He nodded. "Yes." He replied simply. "That makes sense." He shrugged a little.

Thesa started once again to hum softly, starting to organize her food first by what it was. Later she would move onto everything else but for now she wanted to focus on one thing.

"What are you humming?" Zev asked suddenly. "I don't recognize it." He looked at her.

“A song me, my brother, and sister made up when we were really young,” She replied, pausing her humming for a minute and glancing over at him from her organizing.

"Oh." He replied, then continued working. "I see. That explains why I didn't recognize it." He dipped his head in a nod.

Thesa nodded, going into no further detail about her siblings or the song. It was still a tough set of memories and she figured Zev didn't want to have to deal with her if she got emotional over it.

He finished up. "Is there anything else that you want me to do?" He asked, looking over at her.

"Not that I can think of," She replied, "Unless you want to help me organize." Delia continued to work with organizing the food.

Zev nodded. "Oh. Do you want me to help?" He asked, looking at her quizzically.

She shrugged, "You can, if you really want to." With a small sigh, she got back to work, "Or you could go check how much longer this trip if going to take, it should just list a number of hours on one of the screens."

Zev nodded. "I'll check, then." He replied, heading into the cockpit. He located the monitor that showed the time, and frowned slightly. "Five to seven hours." He called out to her.

Delia groaned and let herself lean forward until she was resting against the shelves, "Five to seven more hours? I'm going to die of boredom."

Zev shrugged. "Well, what do humans usually do for recreation?" He frowned a little. "Hm. Music, reading, drawing, sports, movies, TV shows, and many others, including Sex." He shrugged a little.

"Sadly, I can't really do half of those," She replied, forcing herself to slowly get back to work. Her ears turned slightly pink at his last thing in the list and she tried to ignore it, "And the other half require either prior work or another willing participant."