Unidentified Flying AI

@"Horus" @"Cucumber Sempai"

The sky was tinted a reddish-yellow color when DJ pulled the door closed behind her and bid her little bundle of joy a good night.

Tevyntr was past the age where he would stomp his little feet and cry when she left. Now he simply ran up to her and hug her legs tightly before running away again into the apartment and making the babysitter's life a little harder than it needed to be. And she would likely hear the babysitter lying about how good he'd been that night and laugh to herself while chiding him for being not that good.

A sigh.

She loved Tevvie, really she did, but sometimes she couldn't help but think about how difficult it was to live her life with him around. He costed a lot of money even if he didn't know it, and that kind of money was not easy to come by, and not that type that she could easily get by freelancing alone.

As she walked down the street, her hands in her pockets, she glanced up at the sky and then looked back down, giving a rock a solid kick.

She had the feeling that tonight was going to be a long, bothersome night.

DJ wasn't looking where she was going. Her life was on autopilot at this point, moving her feet and taking her to where she wanted to go with minimal input or higher thought function from her brain. It was almost the most perfectly monotonous day she could imagine. The same sunset she'd looked at for years, and had lost its luster as the day reached its end.

A ball of anxiety settled in her stomach as she crossed the street and turned at the corner.

She hadn't expected the pebble to come bouncing back. Curious, she stopped walking and looked up to better see what had sent it towards her.

It was... well, she wasn't quiet sure what it was. It... looked like a human, but it was also glowing in a way that humans most certainly were not supposed to glow. On top of that there was just this... subtle discomfort that she felt looking at it. Like there was something intrinsically wrong with them. Something that prickled under her skin and made her question their nature.

And then she heard it.

It was like a symphony, loud and clear from that person she heard beautiful transcendent music the likes of which she'd never heard before. It was beyond her understanding yet it was also something that she couldn't escape. It enveloped her puny mind and made her question herself and everything that meant anything to her. It was... simply magnificent.

She inhaled sharply and walked towards them, her eyes alight with excitement at this chance. The technomancer had never heard anything to trance-inducing, so beautiful.

"Excuse me," She tried. "My name is DJ... who... are you?"

@"Horus" @"Cucumber Sempai"