"Wait, nicer digs? Babe," he asked, undaunted and yeah, beyond a little amused at her irritation with his monikers, "are you telling me your place is so bad a rat won't even deem it livable?" He choked out a laugh. "No wonder you think a hazardous waste dump will be a good hidey hole. My place must be like a five-star suite compared to yours."
He tugged on a strand of hair as he took in the room around him. While it was true his hadn't yet had time to get messy, he knew it was only a matter of time before it looked rather like he lived inside a rat's collection point. Half of his gear was still in boxes and none of his setup was yet ideal. Before long, there'd be half-soldered circuit boards; cables dangling from the ceiling, walls, and across previously walkable pathways; and it'd be trickier than a minefield.
"Top hat, monocle, white gloves, perhaps? He could clean your place so his other laser rat friends won't be so afraid. Or they'd join in, having joined the sentient masses. With the company you keep, a sentient rodent army wouldn't hurt." An offer to find her better digs was on the tip of his tongue. Instead, he had to concede she'd tolerated him well enough so far; pushing into the realm of personal space would probably have ended the conversation. And he was having too much fun with the flaming tusks and scurrying rat to leave her be just yet.
Sascha never let him follow her around with rats.
He had crossed the room to retrieve the datapad he'd sent scouring up background on his charge when a sensor beeped. A red light went off once in the peripheral of his left eye. He backtracked the vid links, searching for whatever had gone amiss.
The drones.
He'd put a targeting algorithm on them via the public vids, but had otherwise dismissed the issue. It was prudent, rather than paranoid, to not leave a trace of himself on their software. So of course, both were now lurking suspiciously a mere building's distance away. "Well, that's not very 'observe and alert' of them."
This was concerning, and he didn't bother to keep it from his voice. "Go through the next two rooms and out the side of the building. There should be a fire escape thing. I doubt it's sturdy, if it's actually there. How are you at scaling buildings?" he added as an afterthought, hovering over his desk and typing in code to dig further into the drones' programming. "Might need you to--"
The first drone exploded. Unfortunate, that. Fate blinked, his datapad hit the floor, then he swore loudly. "Scratch that. DEFINITELY need you to go up a level, but let's do it before you try for the outer wall. Got a drone situation and I'm going to need a minute on the outside."
Because anyone moving after that drone bit it would be suspect, and plan C was cutting every vid feed in the lower quad. That would be nice and not-obvious.
Prowess. Fuck.
"You should really find trouble more your size. Else, someone might take offense to having your hand explode all over their face."
He tugged on a strand of hair as he took in the room around him. While it was true his hadn't yet had time to get messy, he knew it was only a matter of time before it looked rather like he lived inside a rat's collection point. Half of his gear was still in boxes and none of his setup was yet ideal. Before long, there'd be half-soldered circuit boards; cables dangling from the ceiling, walls, and across previously walkable pathways; and it'd be trickier than a minefield.
"Top hat, monocle, white gloves, perhaps? He could clean your place so his other laser rat friends won't be so afraid. Or they'd join in, having joined the sentient masses. With the company you keep, a sentient rodent army wouldn't hurt." An offer to find her better digs was on the tip of his tongue. Instead, he had to concede she'd tolerated him well enough so far; pushing into the realm of personal space would probably have ended the conversation. And he was having too much fun with the flaming tusks and scurrying rat to leave her be just yet.
Sascha never let him follow her around with rats.
He had crossed the room to retrieve the datapad he'd sent scouring up background on his charge when a sensor beeped. A red light went off once in the peripheral of his left eye. He backtracked the vid links, searching for whatever had gone amiss.
The drones.
He'd put a targeting algorithm on them via the public vids, but had otherwise dismissed the issue. It was prudent, rather than paranoid, to not leave a trace of himself on their software. So of course, both were now lurking suspiciously a mere building's distance away. "Well, that's not very 'observe and alert' of them."
This was concerning, and he didn't bother to keep it from his voice. "Go through the next two rooms and out the side of the building. There should be a fire escape thing. I doubt it's sturdy, if it's actually there. How are you at scaling buildings?" he added as an afterthought, hovering over his desk and typing in code to dig further into the drones' programming. "Might need you to--"
The first drone exploded. Unfortunate, that. Fate blinked, his datapad hit the floor, then he swore loudly. "Scratch that. DEFINITELY need you to go up a level, but let's do it before you try for the outer wall. Got a drone situation and I'm going to need a minute on the outside."
Because anyone moving after that drone bit it would be suspect, and plan C was cutting every vid feed in the lower quad. That would be nice and not-obvious.
Prowess. Fuck.
"You should really find trouble more your size. Else, someone might take offense to having your hand explode all over their face."
Dreams come in a size too big so we can grow into them.
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