All right. [ He grins. He navigates to another edge just above her, following the route his eyes had charted moments before. Ten minutes. Now that he can work with. The sky has all ready grown another few shades darker.
He scales the rocky outcrop as well as he can, finding it hard to take his eyes off the sky—part of his model’s inborn curiosity perhaps, sparking like a hungry flame—a sudden, almost manufactured eagerness fueling his footsteps as he scrambles higher, marking the path for 2B to follow. It’s a feeling he doesn’t think he could suppress if he tried. Emotions may be prohibited, but at times like this, he'd find it a shame, not to feel. ] I think we just need to clear the trees, get out from under the canopies.
[ Anywhere that fit those specifications would probably do.
He reaches the top, eyes darting around the circumference of the area, before mentally choosing a path that cuts through some bushes, spotting an wide, open area twenty feet ahead of him that isn’t obscured by shadow that seems to be facing the direction of the sun. It’s tempting, to just run ahead without stopping. Run as fast as his legs can take him so he doesn’t miss a single second that he doesn’t have, satiate the itch in his limbs, but he’ll wait for the seconds it takes for 2B to reach the top, before finally sprinting ahead. He doesn’t stop until he reaches the area his eyes had marked, finding himself at the edge of another cliff face overlooking a far more open area of the Forest Kingdom with a pond lying just below, leaving the view of the sky and parallel horizon mostly untarnished by obscuring greenery.
He squints a little, against the light, a little bright still, even through his visor, though the sun’s ultraviolet rays pose no danger to an android’s less-than-organic biology. The light is almost polarized now, sky quickly darkening, shade by shade, closer to the color of the deep sea than the usual afternoon sky.
It still takes a moment, but the light is fast receding, and soon he can make out the first black traces of the moon choking off the sun. ]
There. [ He says, once she’s in hearing range, pointing again. ] See? That’s the moon moving in.
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All right. [ He grins. He navigates to another edge just above her, following the route his eyes had charted moments before. Ten minutes. Now that he can work with. The sky has all ready grown another few shades darker.
He scales the rocky outcrop as well as he can, finding it hard to take his eyes off the sky—part of his model’s inborn curiosity perhaps, sparking like a hungry flame—a sudden, almost manufactured eagerness fueling his footsteps as he scrambles higher, marking the path for 2B to follow. It’s a feeling he doesn’t think he could suppress if he tried. Emotions may be prohibited, but at times like this, he'd find it a shame, not to feel. ] I think we just need to clear the trees, get out from under the canopies.
[ Anywhere that fit those specifications would probably do.
He reaches the top, eyes darting around the circumference of the area, before mentally choosing a path that cuts through some bushes, spotting an wide, open area twenty feet ahead of him that isn’t obscured by shadow that seems to be facing the direction of the sun. It’s tempting, to just run ahead without stopping. Run as fast as his legs can take him so he doesn’t miss a single second that he doesn’t have, satiate the itch in his limbs, but he’ll wait for the seconds it takes for 2B to reach the top, before finally sprinting ahead. He doesn’t stop until he reaches the area his eyes had marked, finding himself at the edge of another cliff face overlooking a far more open area of the Forest Kingdom with a pond lying just below, leaving the view of the sky and parallel horizon mostly untarnished by obscuring greenery.
He squints a little, against the light, a little bright still, even through his visor, though the sun’s ultraviolet rays pose no danger to an android’s less-than-organic biology. The light is almost polarized now, sky quickly darkening, shade by shade, closer to the color of the deep sea than the usual afternoon sky.
It still takes a moment, but the light is fast receding, and soon he can make out the first black traces of the moon choking off the sun. ]
There. [ He says, once she’s in hearing range, pointing again. ] See? That’s the moon moving in.