How odd! Vibri’s new friend was machine… but only part machine?? The roads leading through didn’t seem to go far enough… the robots she’d gone through before had at least twice as much road! On top of that, the road looked all twisty and chaotic, full of rough obstacles, like it was angry! Though Vibri always had the bad habit of being a tad bit overwhelming and breaking boundaries, she felt like she was seeing something she wasn’t supposed to.
Having not traveled too far, she was quick to make her way back out. Bunnie’s robotic hand would suddenly move to point to the area in front of her, in a sort of finger gun gesture. Just as quickly as she was pulled in, Vibri popped back out, her frame wobbling a little bit before stabilizing back into her proper form.
“Ah! Gomen, gomen!! Vibri is very sorry, I did not expect to touch machine! It is how Vibri does travel to other places! But, chotto matte…” She tilted her head, a triangular paw tapping her chin as question marks visibly popped in above her head.
“…You say you are not machine?”
Oh thank goodness, she’s out. Bunnie let out a sigh of relief and reached for her robot arm, stabilizing it herself in preparation for the inevitable phantom pains that would hit her. Thankfully, Vibri didn’t seem to have reached her legs much, if at all. Considering Bunnie’s wheelchair was a ways away from where she was now, that was at least one thing she didn’t have to fret over.
“Aw, don’t go beatin’ yourself up all over it, sugar! Had I known that would’ve went down the way it did, I would’ve given you my other hand instead.” She still looked winded from the experience, but her tone was otherwise light-hearted and reassuring for the sake of Vibri. “But y’know, now that we know, we know, and it won’t happen again! Y’get what I’m sayin’, right?”
Vibri’s question, however, sobered Bunnie up a little more. To be fair, it was a question she probably should’ve anticipated; a lot of people, especially young children, would probably have ‘are you a machine’ as one of their first questions for her. Not that Bunnie liked answering it, mind you, but at this point she was used to it.
“Nah, sorry, I’m no machine. It’s a long story an’ I don’t like talkin’ ‘bout it much, but all y’ need to know is a real bad man did... things to me.” She went silent for a moment as she pondered if she had the energy to explain something as traumatic as roboticization to a being so innocent and childlike like Vibri.
No, she didn’t. Time to go the optimistic route.
“But y’ gotta make the most of bad situations sometimes--- and that’s what I did!” Or am tryin’ to do, at least.
