Huffing a bit at her seeming uncaring while distracted, he stood and strode over to her side. “Alright, I’ll bite, what’s got you so… distracted…?” Finally able to see her work, his eyebrows raised in surprise. “Is that Connor… with a fish?” “Yep.” She nodded with a smile. Indeed it was, strokes of cool colors depicting the android surrounded by flowing water, a small freshwater fish suspended in his outstretched hands. “Connor recently told me about the first time he ever did something outside of his programming: he saved a fish that had fallen out of a broken tank. A dwarf gourami specifically. So, I wanna surprise him with this,” she explained.
now for my favorite addition to the redux in chapter 11, the connor painting! it was fun doing another painting, and while of course this is somewhat different than what i ideally had in my mind's eye while writing it, i hope it still came out good!













