vios-e (ashes)

Scanning for lifeforms... catalog #1123959. The purple robot flicked her eyes across the unfamiliar terrain. It was strange - or at least the definition of strange that VI knew - that for all her time spent here on Earth, she had never once climbed a mountain. A giant hill, in essence, of rock...

Scanning item #1204.... Data collected. Even as the android girl held the book open, her system cataloging was running at a million bits per second - eyes scanning across the page quickly, although the information collected seemed to mean not a thing in the context of Earth culture. How was it...

Scanning... Scanning.... No clients found. As the slender android wove her way through the crowds of the Strip, she glanced around. Nameless faces swept past her, waves in the sea of people. Not one looked much apart from the other - all awash in a lilac-colored hue, as she searched for...

Systems online. The android walked once again down the sidewalks of the large green area, known by humans as the park. Strange thing, really. Why dedicate such a large area of green fertile grass and call it a park? It was quite puzzling - but she digressed. Violet could not disrespect the...

Logging environment data.... As she surveyed her environment, she recognized several things from her previous logs. There were several [trees] around, as well as some new features. Rocks, flowers, a footpath... all of them were found in the courtyard. It sort of gave the robotic girl a warm...

The creaky metal. The surprisingly low hum of machinery. The little glitches in the code that allowed the android to walk. And talk. And "breathe". And think. The broken vocal cords that impaired the android's very purpose, for the most part. By all means, emerging out of the cluster of organic...