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Sora looked skeptically at the instruction sheet, which he’d been trying to decipher for at least half an hour so far. He truly had no understanding of computer science, and all those directives did nothing but confuse his ideas even more. Buttons, switches, colored lights. What mattered to him? How to charge the batteries, to set the level of responsiveness - what was that even about?! - how to change the passwords. Everything was explained in detail, but the basic things? Forgotten? All he wanted was to be able to turn on the android he had bought that morning, not to solve a puzzle.
As he looked up to spy, over the paper, the figure of a boy resting on his couch - where he’d manage to put it, not without some effort - Sora blinked in silence and thought for the umpteenth time that the resemblance was almost unbelievable. It almost seemed to be asleep, slumped against the back of the couch and with his eyes closed. He knew that it was not a real person, and a part of him still insisted to ask why he had decided to take it and bring it home.
It had been that very similarity, perhaps. Their almost identical faces. It was just a feeling, but he usually followed his instincts - being it a good or a bad thing - so he’d taken it, even if the seller had repeatedly warned him that this android in particular had been listed as “defective”.
But who cared, after all? It was perfect the way it was, defective or not.
With this thought on his mind, Sora stood up and walked up to him, leaning with one knee on the sofa, stretching out one hand to lift his head. The right button had to be somewhere there - the instruction sheet forgotten on the floor. Feeling the skin slowly and carefully, it finally seemed that his fingers had found a small bulge, behind his neck, just above the hairline. Sora pressed, slightly hesitating, until he felt a small but distinct click under his fingertips. A familiar hiss immediately followed, like the one that he always heard whenever he turned on the lights. It seemed that energy had finally began to circulate.
« Oh, that was so easy! »
He couldn’t help but smile. It was going to be an interesting adventure, if anything, and whatever happened he surely was not going to regret it.
« Hey there, can you hear me? »
