🍃🏹➳ You’re the chief of security, you should be the one to interrogate it, said one of the councilwomen. If there really are civilizations on the surface advanced enough to create androids like that one, then perhaps there are ones that know more of our condition, or at the very least, places that will accept us.
The meeting went through her head over and over again, at the same time, the kinds of questions she was supposed to ask their new guest. It wasn’t like the many humans that had wandered down here and shot on sight, or the strange, rotting corpses that snarled and growled. In all the countless years, none of the humans had even tried speaking to them. It had gotten to the point that some thought the surface dwellers no longer spoke modern English.
But here was this robot, this machine, speaking as eloquent as a pre-war aristocrat, responding and surrendering accordingly when the other security had threatened him. He claimed to be looking for someone, someone else that came down here. Cyrene could most likely answer his question right away, but she, and the rest of the vault, had ten-fold the amount of questions for him.
The horned-woman, not really a woman anymore, a mutant, opened the sliding air-pressured door that led to the empty barrak they used for a makeshift holding cell, standing before the strange mechanical man. She had practiced her lines, what to say, how to say it; and yet now that she was here, it seemed to have all gone out the non-existing window.
“....... ‘Sup?” Oh yeah, that was a great way to introduce herself.