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

Started August 10, 2019 by @ElderGod-Icefire

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"You are going to be killed." Zev replied.

"I don't think so," She replied cockily, shrugging and looking back at the sky.

Zev looked at her. "Yes, you will." He replied.

"Not if I don't slip." She propped herself up on her elbows and looked at him, teasingly arguing with him, "You of all people should know that, you can figure all of that math out."

Zev pursed his lips for a moment. "Hm. If you say so." He replied.

It was highly unlikely that she would actually go through with her plan of climbing up the side of a building but she didn't tell him that, just shrugging again and getting comfortable on the mattress. "Maybe I'll sleep out here," she said, looking over at him to see how much he opposed that idea.

Zev rolled his eyes. "I do not think that is a smart idea." he replied.

"Why?" She asked, cocking her head to the side and looking at him for a response. It actually was a nice night out, a little cold but with the blankets she had toted out it would actually be quite comfy.

"You could get hurt." Zev replied. "Or get sick."

"I have enough blankets, I won't get sick," Thesa said, "And I'll just beat up anyone that tries to hurt me."

Zev shrugged a little. "Still. You could be in danger."

"I'm always in danger Zev, it's in the job description," She said with a laugh, shaking her head, "This is just a little added danger, though you're here too so it's probably less danger in total than I'm used to."

Zev cocked his head a little. "And who says I would keep you safe?" He replied. Just to see her response. In reality, he probably would.

"Your programming," She said with a shrug, "You might absolutely not want to deal with me or keep me safe in any way, but to an extent your programming would most likely prevent me from getting killed."

Zev cocked his head. "Not technically." He replied. "You are not my owner, therefore my programming doesn't drive me to either obey you or protect you."

"But I'm your ride to Alexi," She replied, looking at him and rolling onto her stomach on the mattress, "I mean, you're not obligated to protect me, but unless you want to risk asking someone else for a ride, you'd protect me to get to him."

"You raise a good point." Zev replied. "However, after observing you, I believe I could pilot your ship without you, so technically I do not need you, just your ship."

Thesa raised an eyebrow, watching him, "I highly suggest you don't try to pilot my ship without me though, I'm not that much of an idiot to leave it able to be piloted by anyone."

Zev shrugged. "I could eventually figure it out." He replied. "It might take a while, but I do not doubt that I could."

"It would take work to access most of the more advanced controls since they're protected, maybe you could get it off the ground, but anymore than that would take intense work and good guessing." She had always kept her ship protected from anyone who would try to hijack it and leave, a trick from when she had just started building her ship.

Zev cocked his head. "I am an android. I could figure it out." He replied calmly.

"Eventually you could, but there is a limit to how many times you can try a password before it locks you out." Most of her system was built off of old scavenged parts and she had gotten the idea of a certain amount of tries from some safes she had come across, meaning after five incorrect tries it would disable for ten minutes, ten meant half an hour, and so on.

Zev shrugged. "Again, I could figure it out." he replied. "I could simply hack or erase your systems."

Thesa scowled, "Don't you dare even think of that as one of the options, buddy. That ship is my baby."

Zev's lips twitched in a movement that was almost a smile. "Mhm. If you say so. But if you aren't here to stop me…" he trailed off.