The Roboticist

Here's a good clean transfer of a great classic that never stales.

Persephone was hiding in her cave, stoking a fire with some branches and looking at her "stores". The forest was abundant with seeds for her to use! Unfortunately, while food was no longer a concern, the growing cold was. Her days, previously filled with gathering various fruit and vegetable seeds, were now spent collecting fallen branches, dead vegetation and dirt to make garden beds deep in the cave where it would be easier to keep warm. Would it have been wiser to just surrender to the cold? Probably, but the hybrid was essentially a fugitive after all. She needed to stay alert to stay safe, and that meant keeping warm. The last thing she expected (or even wanted) was a woman adorned in a lab coat to run into her cave. With no preparation for combat, she could only cower in a corner and pray she hadn't been spotted.

After a moment of facing the woman in the corner, she let out a long hiss and asked softly, "How far away is the nearest city? And what's it called?" Despite the softness of her voice, there was something almost dead about her tone, as if she were either empty inside or so used to hiding her emotions that she was even doing it in a cave, with a strange wild woman.

"I do not know, I do not go near the settlements and I usually avoid going near any humanoid." She answered, head immediately looking at the ground. " There is a paved trail about a day's hike towards where the light rises. Many Transports take the trail so you may be able to get one to stop or you can hop onto one. Is my answer satisfactory?" Chip or no, The poor girl, who had only tasted freedom for a few months, had once again found herself at the mercy of a scientist.

"Thank you, hon. Now we know where to not go. You've helped. A lot." This voice was entirely different. It was as if a different person - a real person, not a robot - were speaking. "Maybe you could help us with something else? Do you know if there are any other caves nearby? Preferably caves that go in deeper and don't have any obvious recent signs of humans around them?"

Walking towards the back of the cave, she placed her hand against the wall and breathed slowly. Moss flowed from her palm, covering the rock. The sound was subtle, rather quiet and almost hard to hear, but signs of dark sand upon the floor quickly emerged. It didn't take a genius to see that the sand had been the rock previously on the wall. it took about a minute, but soon the wall had been pushed back by half a foot and the hybrid stepped away. "The hard part is taking the grit to the stream where it is washed away. the deeper I go, the longer it takes."

"Does that help? Do you hurt less? Is there any thing else I can do to help you?"

“Well… if you would like to stay could you help me carry out the grit? And gather up firewood and leaves. I will need to make another space for growing food.”

Tabby cleared her face shield, reached for the scarred girl's hands, and gave her a gentle smile. "Don't worry, hon. I've given the boys the plans they need for digging down. There's some good solid rock not that far down and back, and once we're into that, it'll be warm and secure. What kind of food do you like best? Or..." she paused and looked the girl up and down before asking softly, "...is that a silly question?"

“Um… i can eat just about anything. I just need to decompose and absorb it if I can’t physically eat it. But I don’t need much! I promise.”

While she was asking, the gunbots were continuing to drill into the wall, cutting a passage that began to slope downward. Meanwhile, the little scoop and hopper bots were carrying out gravel and rock shards.

Persephone was hiding in her cave, stoking a fire with some branches and looking at her "stores". The forest was abundant with seeds for her to use! Unfortunately, while food was no longer a concern, the growing cold was. Her days, previously filled with gathering various fruit and vegetable seeds, were now spent collecting fallen branches, dead vegetation and dirt to make garden beds deep in the cave where it would be easier to keep warm. Would it have been wiser to just surrender to the cold? Probably, but the hybrid was essentially a fugitive after all. She needed to stay alert to stay safe, and that meant keeping warm. The last thing she expected (or even wanted) was a woman adorned in a lab coat to run into her cave. With no preparation for combat, she could only cower in a corner and pray she hadn't been spotted.

After a moment of facing the woman in the corner, she let out a long hiss and asked softly, "How far away is the nearest city? And what's it called?" Despite the softness of her voice, there was something almost dead about her tone, as if she were either empty inside or so used to hiding her emotions that she was even doing it in a cave, with a strange wild woman.

"I do not know, I do not go near the settlements and I usually avoid going near any humanoid." She answered, head immediately looking at the ground. " There is a paved trail about a day's hike towards where the light rises. Many Transports take the trail so you may be able to get one to stop or you can hop onto one. Is my answer satisfactory?" Chip or no, The poor girl, who had only tasted freedom for a few months, had once again found herself at the mercy of a scientist.

"Thank you, hon. Now we know where to not go. You've helped. A lot." This voice was entirely different. It was as if a different person - a real person, not a robot - were speaking. "Maybe you could help us with something else? Do you know if there are any other caves nearby? Preferably caves that go in deeper and don't have any obvious recent signs of humans around them?"

Walking towards the back of the cave, she placed her hand against the wall and breathed slowly. Moss flowed from her palm, covering the rock. The sound was subtle, rather quiet and almost hard to hear, but signs of dark sand upon the floor quickly emerged. It didn't take a genius to see that the sand had been the rock previously on the wall. it took about a minute, but soon the wall had been pushed back by half a foot and the hybrid stepped away. "The hard part is taking the grit to the stream where it is washed away. the deeper I go, the longer it takes."

"Does that help? Do you hurt less? Is there any thing else I can do to help you?"

“Well… if you would like to stay could you help me carry out the grit? And gather up firewood and leaves. I will need to make another space for growing food.”

Tabby cleared her face shield, reached for the scarred girl's hands, and gave her a gentle smile. "Don't worry, hon. I've given the boys the plans they need for digging down. There's some good solid rock not that far down and back, and once we're into that, it'll be warm and secure. What kind of food do you like best? Or..." she paused and looked the girl up and down before asking softly, "...is that a silly question?"

Persephone was hiding in her cave, stoking a fire with some branches and looking at her "stores". The forest was abundant with seeds for her to use! Unfortunately, while food was no longer a concern, the growing cold was. Her days, previously filled with gathering various fruit and vegetable seeds, were now spent collecting fallen branches, dead vegetation and dirt to make garden beds deep in the cave where it would be easier to keep warm. Would it have been wiser to just surrender to the cold? Probably, but the hybrid was essentially a fugitive after all. She needed to stay alert to stay safe, and that meant keeping warm. The last thing she expected (or even wanted) was a woman adorned in a lab coat to run into her cave. With no preparation for combat, she could only cower in a corner and pray she hadn't been spotted.

After a moment of facing the woman in the corner, she let out a long hiss and asked softly, "How far away is the nearest city? And what's it called?" Despite the softness of her voice, there was something almost dead about her tone, as if she were either empty inside or so used to hiding her emotions that she was even doing it in a cave, with a strange wild woman.

"I do not know, I do not go near the settlements and I usually avoid going near any humanoid." She answered, head immediately looking at the ground. " There is a paved trail about a day's hike towards where the light rises. Many Transports take the trail so you may be able to get one to stop or you can hop onto one. Is my answer satisfactory?" Chip or no, The poor girl, who had only tasted freedom for a few months, had once again found herself at the mercy of a scientist.

"Thank you, hon. Now we know where to not go. You've helped. A lot." This voice was entirely different. It was as if a different person - a real person, not a robot - were speaking. "Maybe you could help us with something else? Do you know if there are any other caves nearby? Preferably caves that go in deeper and don't have any obvious recent signs of humans around them?"

Walking towards the back of the cave, she placed her hand against the wall and breathed slowly. Moss flowed from her palm, covering the rock. The sound was subtle, rather quiet and almost hard to hear, but signs of dark sand upon the floor quickly emerged. It didn't take a genius to see that the sand had been the rock previously on the wall. it took about a minute, but soon the wall had been pushed back by half a foot and the hybrid stepped away. "The hard part is taking the grit to the stream where it is washed away. the deeper I go, the longer it takes."

"Does that help? Do you hurt less? Is there any thing else I can do to help you?"

Thank you for everything, sir.

Persephone was hiding in her cave, stoking a fire with some branches and looking at her "stores". The forest was abundant with seeds for her to use! Unfortunately, while food was no longer a concern, the growing cold was. Her days, previously filled with gathering various fruit and vegetable seeds, were now spent collecting fallen branches, dead vegetation and dirt to make garden beds deep in the cave where it would be easier to keep warm. Would it have been wiser to just surrender to the cold? Probably, but the hybrid was essentially a fugitive after all. She needed to stay alert to stay safe, and that meant keeping warm. The last thing she expected (or even wanted) was a woman adorned in a lab coat to run into her cave. With no preparation for combat, she could only cower in a corner and pray she hadn't been spotted.

After a moment of facing the woman in the corner, she let out a long hiss and asked softly, "How far away is the nearest city? And what's it called?" Despite the softness of her voice, there was something almost dead about her tone, as if she were either empty inside or so used to hiding her emotions that she was even doing it in a cave, with a strange wild woman.

"I do not know, I do not go near the settlements and I usually avoid going near any humanoid." She answered, head immediately looking at the ground. " There is a paved trail about a day's hike towards where the light rises. Many Transports take the trail so you may be able to get one to stop or you can hop onto one. Is my answer satisfactory?" Chip or no, The poor girl, who had only tasted freedom for a few months, had once again found herself at the mercy of a scientist.

"Thank you, hon. Now we know where to not go. You've helped. A lot." This voice was entirely different. It was as if a different person - a real person, not a robot - were speaking. "Maybe you could help us with something else? Do you know if there are any other caves nearby? Preferably caves that go in deeper and don't have any obvious recent signs of humans around them?"

Persephone was hiding in her cave, stoking a fire with some branches and looking at her "stores". The forest was abundant with seeds for her to use! Unfortunately, while food was no longer a concern, the growing cold was. Her days, previously filled with gathering various fruit and vegetable seeds, were now spent collecting fallen branches, dead vegetation and dirt to make garden beds deep in the cave where it would be easier to keep warm. Would it have been wiser to just surrender to the cold? Probably, but the hybrid was essentially a fugitive after all. She needed to stay alert to stay safe, and that meant keeping warm. The last thing she expected (or even wanted) was a woman adorned in a lab coat to run into her cave. With no preparation for combat, she could only cower in a corner and pray she hadn't been spotted.

After a moment of facing the woman in the corner, she let out a long hiss and asked softly, "How far away is the nearest city? And what's it called?" Despite the softness of her voice, there was something almost dead about her tone, as if she were either empty inside or so used to hiding her emotions that she was even doing it in a cave, with a strange wild woman.

Vaguely as she flashed that bit of skin she heard a woman’s voice scolding her. Like one would scold a child. Making a face her eyebrow rose as she looked at her. “That is a shitty name.” Not that she had a better one at the moment.

"Yes, Mistress," the blonde said, her voice clearly filed with adoration for Mistress, and then she smiled at the redhead. "You're awake! How do you feel? Want something to drink while you're eating? We have Herzwesten beer, several kinds of wine, milk, I can whip up hot cocoa, there's always coffee ready, and we have a good tea cupboard, too."

She broke the kiss gently. “Do you want me to do anything to you?” she asked quietly. She didn’t want to be the only one satisfied, but didn’t want to push the girl or anything.

She smiled and caressed her pet, kissed her again, and purred, "You realize that what I just did is only a warm-up, right? Within a few months, my fist inside you will be just to get you feeling ready for REAL play. For today, how about you show me how cunning a linguist YOU are?”

She held her tightly and then blushed even deeper, nodding. “I understand that now,” she whispered. She propped herself up on her elbow to look down at Tabitha. “Use them how?” 

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“Here we go, sweetheart. Why don’t you crawl in and tell me how you like it?”

She watched as Tabitha finished the fort. She nodded and then crawled into it, smiling. “I really like it,” she said. “Now my turn.” She laid a blanket out, put two pillows on it towards the fireplace, then put the other blankets near the bottom of the fort to cuddle up in. “What do you think?” She sat in the middle of the fort, her head tilted to the side some.

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