Kreska did not bother trying to get up. Not that she'd accepted her place on the floor, but there didn't seem much point to standing when Grilka was in one of eir moods. Specifically, the mood to pick people up and move them around as pleased em.
She didn't know what it said about Fate that he responded to things she said aloud by typing. She'd done the same, she supposed, but that had been brief and out of courtesy. It wasn't a preference. Less reading was better as a general rule.
☠» nah plans goin gr8
☠» if the plan was 2 poke a krotazi
☠» like w/a stick
☠» 4 fun
Stress and pain and her typing was getting worse in ways that autocorrect could not compensate for, ways she would not bother to fix.
She was also trying to keep a bit of distance between herself and the droid. In part because she couldn't tell how much control Fate actually had. That seemed like a recipe for getting smacked in the face.
Grilka cocked eir head to the side as ey considered the bot. "Is your friend having a seizure?" Ey looked to Kreska. "That's what those are called, isn't it?"
"He's fine." For varying levels of fine. He could type alright, anyhow. Didn't seem like he'd be doing that with a seizure.
"He must care for you very much," Grilka said sympathetically to Sascha, "to try so very hard." 'Try' being the operative word. "You're so agreeable, Sascha Bennett, I can't say I blame him. Kreska Ido, be useful for once and try to calm him down. I know you'll be bad at it, but try."
☠» ay
☠» like legit tho
☠» u okay
☠» do u need a paper bag
☠» or candy
☠» bc i dont have any
Eir attention returned to eir holographic display, various tendrils idly petting Sascha's hair and rubbing at her shoulders. "Lots of hunters suggests valuable prey," ey noted. "I wonder if perhaps this has something to do with the incident at Radius? Very bad business, for them." Ey clicked eir teeth. "Very good business for everyone else. I wonder, I wonder."
"I will fix this," Grilka decided, turning off the display. "Not in general, of course, but this specific clusterfuck. I think perhaps that I owe you a favor, Sascha Bennett, and I would like to know that you are somewhere safe. I think that we should be friends, good friends – if we are not friends already."
Because really, ey didn't need to know where this useful and well-meaning hacker was if ey knew where to find his most precious thing. And Sascha, she seemed useful, too. This solved so many problems at once. It was a very tidy solution. No one could possibly find fault with it.
"First you will need to change, because you cannot possibly be seen in that." Tendrils tugged at her makeshift top as another part of eir tail entirely found the neglected bag of clothes. When ey found something ey considered suitable ey offered it to her, making a show of looking in another direction and turning eir tail into a privacy shield. "Get your boots back on, Captain's Daughter."
"I will carry you to the Southern Quadrant, to sector 17 — they like me very much there, and they will not mind this stolen droid, I think." Ey hummed thoughtfully. "But your friend will need to be careful about what he touches." Southern's sector 17 was the free droid's district, not the most livable by organic standards but certainly safe from most organic threats. An insular and tight-knit community that did not always trust those made of meat, hackers could easily be seen as the least trustworthy of all.
Still, if safety was paramount, it was hard to find safer. Eyes everywhere with the capacity to instantly report suspicious activity, few had the connections there that Grilka did. And corporate goons didn't dare set foot in the sector, not if they knew what was good for them.
"I have a friend with a spare room — a bit noisy, his shop, but cozy. You can rest there, relax, yes?"
"Which friend?" Kreska asked, attempting to maintain some level of responsibility for the woman. She was, indeed, struggling to get her boots back on – the camera once again uncovered, but she no longer cared about that. She was dressed now, after all.
"Tone-E."
"Which Tony?" Her response clearly depended on the answer.
"Tone-E," ey said, emphasizing the last letter as distinct from the first syllable.
"Oh!" Kreska snorted. "Yeah, nah, they're cool. Motherfucker's great."
"See?" Grilka said. "They're even nice to Kreska. Imagine how nice they will be to you." Kreska did not even debate that point, nodded with a lift of her brows because it was actually a good point.
Everything about her was carefully calculated to make her difficult to like. She didn't have any reason to deny it.
Ey patted Sascha on the head again. "We will all go together, since Kreska cannot carry you, and I do not think your friend will send this silly bot home. He does not trust me, even though you are yours and not his." Ey shrugged, splaying out four hands as if there was nothing ey could do. "But perhaps I will remove its head, if it will not be quiet. When you are rested, Sascha Bennett, we can talk."
About what she owed, about what he owed, about what they could do for each other while knowing exactly what ey could do to them. Keep him on a leash by keeping her, didn't matter where he hid if he came out every time ey called.
"And while we are on our way, Kreska will have plenty of time to think about when she wants to go home."
She scowled at that. "Don' need anymore favors," she muttered, checking to be sure that she was all sorted out, still sitting on the ground and looking yet more petulant for it.
She didn't know what it said about Fate that he responded to things she said aloud by typing. She'd done the same, she supposed, but that had been brief and out of courtesy. It wasn't a preference. Less reading was better as a general rule.
☠» nah plans goin gr8
☠» if the plan was 2 poke a krotazi
☠» like w/a stick
☠» 4 fun
Stress and pain and her typing was getting worse in ways that autocorrect could not compensate for, ways she would not bother to fix.
She was also trying to keep a bit of distance between herself and the droid. In part because she couldn't tell how much control Fate actually had. That seemed like a recipe for getting smacked in the face.
Grilka cocked eir head to the side as ey considered the bot. "Is your friend having a seizure?" Ey looked to Kreska. "That's what those are called, isn't it?"
"He's fine." For varying levels of fine. He could type alright, anyhow. Didn't seem like he'd be doing that with a seizure.
"He must care for you very much," Grilka said sympathetically to Sascha, "to try so very hard." 'Try' being the operative word. "You're so agreeable, Sascha Bennett, I can't say I blame him. Kreska Ido, be useful for once and try to calm him down. I know you'll be bad at it, but try."
☠» ay
☠» like legit tho
☠» u okay
☠» do u need a paper bag
☠» or candy
☠» bc i dont have any
Eir attention returned to eir holographic display, various tendrils idly petting Sascha's hair and rubbing at her shoulders. "Lots of hunters suggests valuable prey," ey noted. "I wonder if perhaps this has something to do with the incident at Radius? Very bad business, for them." Ey clicked eir teeth. "Very good business for everyone else. I wonder, I wonder."
"I will fix this," Grilka decided, turning off the display. "Not in general, of course, but this specific clusterfuck. I think perhaps that I owe you a favor, Sascha Bennett, and I would like to know that you are somewhere safe. I think that we should be friends, good friends – if we are not friends already."
Because really, ey didn't need to know where this useful and well-meaning hacker was if ey knew where to find his most precious thing. And Sascha, she seemed useful, too. This solved so many problems at once. It was a very tidy solution. No one could possibly find fault with it.
"First you will need to change, because you cannot possibly be seen in that." Tendrils tugged at her makeshift top as another part of eir tail entirely found the neglected bag of clothes. When ey found something ey considered suitable ey offered it to her, making a show of looking in another direction and turning eir tail into a privacy shield. "Get your boots back on, Captain's Daughter."
"I will carry you to the Southern Quadrant, to sector 17 — they like me very much there, and they will not mind this stolen droid, I think." Ey hummed thoughtfully. "But your friend will need to be careful about what he touches." Southern's sector 17 was the free droid's district, not the most livable by organic standards but certainly safe from most organic threats. An insular and tight-knit community that did not always trust those made of meat, hackers could easily be seen as the least trustworthy of all.
Still, if safety was paramount, it was hard to find safer. Eyes everywhere with the capacity to instantly report suspicious activity, few had the connections there that Grilka did. And corporate goons didn't dare set foot in the sector, not if they knew what was good for them.
"I have a friend with a spare room — a bit noisy, his shop, but cozy. You can rest there, relax, yes?"
"Which friend?" Kreska asked, attempting to maintain some level of responsibility for the woman. She was, indeed, struggling to get her boots back on – the camera once again uncovered, but she no longer cared about that. She was dressed now, after all.
"Tone-E."
"Which Tony?" Her response clearly depended on the answer.
"Tone-E," ey said, emphasizing the last letter as distinct from the first syllable.
"Oh!" Kreska snorted. "Yeah, nah, they're cool. Motherfucker's great."
"See?" Grilka said. "They're even nice to Kreska. Imagine how nice they will be to you." Kreska did not even debate that point, nodded with a lift of her brows because it was actually a good point.
Everything about her was carefully calculated to make her difficult to like. She didn't have any reason to deny it.
Ey patted Sascha on the head again. "We will all go together, since Kreska cannot carry you, and I do not think your friend will send this silly bot home. He does not trust me, even though you are yours and not his." Ey shrugged, splaying out four hands as if there was nothing ey could do. "But perhaps I will remove its head, if it will not be quiet. When you are rested, Sascha Bennett, we can talk."
About what she owed, about what he owed, about what they could do for each other while knowing exactly what ey could do to them. Keep him on a leash by keeping her, didn't matter where he hid if he came out every time ey called.
"And while we are on our way, Kreska will have plenty of time to think about when she wants to go home."
She scowled at that. "Don' need anymore favors," she muttered, checking to be sure that she was all sorted out, still sitting on the ground and looking yet more petulant for it.
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