It was a crisp morning; the first snow of the season had fallen and left a thin dusting of white all along the ground. Lights lit up as Bet-E chirped with delight. A simple procession of notes danced out of her voicebox as she pressed her hands up against the glass. The cold always excited her; while she couldn’t necessarily feel anything, she could feel the difference that temperature had on her mechanics. Sure, it made things harder to function and, if she was out there in the cold for too long, it could get dangerous, but it was the closest she could get to feeling and it made her excited all the same. Within minutes, she was out and about, walking through the city streets with snow crunching beneath her feet. Not many humans were up this early, which meant the city was much quieter than was usual. But the rose gold robot didn’t mind. She found this time of day free of many of the distractions that plagued the modern world, and took her time to observe her surroundings more closely. She studied individual snowflakes as they fluttered down to the earth, and observed the fractals of frost that painted the apartment windows as she passed them by, or how the small trees lining the sidewalk bowed under the weight of the snow. So wrapped up in this winter wonderland, Bet-E almost didn’t notice a small clamor above her head. She looked up just in time to see a small beetle of sorts land on her screen. After a small camera refocus, it became apparent that the beetle was a kind of scarab in design, but no organic one by any means. Carefully, she plucked it off her screen and placed it in her hands. Her monitor flickered to a flashing green question mark. She had never seen anything quite like this. “Insect. Who are you?” She quietly asked the mechanical bug. Not receiving an answer, she looked around for it’s origin and spotted somebody leaning out an apartment window. The trajectory looked right, and with a bit of math she concluded that the mechanical insect must have come from there. She waved to get the person’s attention. “Hello?”