1126/Treading Water

Treading Water
Date of Scene:	24 June 2017
Location:	Unknown
Synopsis:	Summary needed
Cast of Characters:	Viridian, Indigo

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Viridian has posed:
    Today has been a tense day for Viridian. She's restless, fingers rapping lightly against any available surface in lieu of the ability to pace. She's wearing her frame again, her legs not strong enoughto support her for more than a moment even if she has recently been able to walk. The frenetic energy is palpable even if the girl cotnains it well. She is waiting for the results of a test.
    Blue eyes look up to study the room in whch the girl sits while she waits for someone to come by or something to happen. She's already repaired all the robots twice. She isn't supposed to wander the hsip- even in her frame- for at least a day or so now that the biopsy has been done. Around the same time she is supposed to get results, actually.
    Mostly, the doctor is looking for an improvement in Viri's prognosis.

Indigo has posed:
    Indigo is waiting with her girlfriend. She's aware that her own presence is probably a kind of torture--that if Viridian uses her powers of technopathy to get inside Indigo's brain, then Viridian will very likely begin to experience time as slowly as the overclocked gynoid does; and that if she doesn't use her powers that way, she'll probably experience something like withdrawal--but that's a problem with no solution. All she can do is sit with Viridian and hope that when it's over, the half-human, half-Xandarian will remember Indigo's willingness to be there.
    As they wait, Indigo talks about whatever Viridian seems willing to talk about. At this moment, she's trying a discussion of alloys, relating their tensile durability to the stress demands of a robot chassis.

Viridian has posed:
    VIridian seem to have some capacity to avoid the overclocking of time by visiting Indigo in a more limited capacity. As the the android talks Viri mostly listens, tilting her head and commenting as details are shared freely. On the current subject:
    "The flexibility is just as important as strength due to impact concerns,"T Tori notes quietly as she replies about the various alloys that Indigo happens to be constructing "A chassis still needs a bit of flex because of regular impacts," she adds, shifting her weight slightly from left to right in her seat.
    "I hope we get news soon," the girl then notes more quietly. "I should stop watching the clock. Maybe we should look at this chassis more caefully. "For you?" She akss quietly.

Indigo has posed:
    Indigo seems surprised. "Me? No, no. I like my body. Even if I thought I could transplant my personality and experiences without any loss into a new shell, I still probably wouldn't. I like being me." And she does, notwithstanding some shyness about her mechanical functions that Viridian is well aware of. "Would you transfer your mind into a synthetic body, if you could?"

Viridian has posed:
    "I like my body too," Viridian responds slowly. She tiolts her head then and slowly shrugs her slender shoulders, twisting where she is seated on the edge of the bed. The girl splays her fingers against the wall, wathcing as she flexes each one by one. Then she continues with, "I'd rather keep all of my own parts if I can... It'sp art of being me. What is the robot for though?"

Indigo has posed:
    "To distract you," Indigo explains plainly. "I thought about telling you jokes, but I'm not really good at that, so it seemed better to give you a topic you're educated in, that you could lecture me about."

Viridian has posed:
    "I always feel like doing that is going to bore you," Viridian admits then. Se does not lose her train of thought right away, twisting slightly where she is seated as she begins to stretch. " Sometimes stopping for a moment is nice. Stretch out. hace some fun."

Indigo has posed:
    Indigo shakes her head. "No. I'm not bored, I'm with you. What kind of fun are you thinking of?"

Viridian has posed:
    "I have no idea," Viridian admits then, tilting her head slightly as she odes. "I just figure we could think of osmething and then tell Max all about it and he can be jealouse." She giggles a little bit at th, another thing the dolphin is incapable of. "And youu really never get bored when Im around...?"

Indigo has posed:
    Indigo is quiet for a moment, the way she sometimes is before she explains something about her mechanics. "My brain is capable of making millions of calculations per second. Naturally, I run out of things to calculate pretty quickly, so I shut down some of my higher functions to force myself to slow down. But I enjoy being with you, so when I'm around you, I can keep more pathways open to concentrate on enjoying your company and paying attention to what you're saying and how you're moving."

Viridian has posed:
    Viridian nods slowly at this nd then offers Indigo a beatific smile, shifting her weight slightly closer as she does. "That's one of the sweetest things I've ever heard," the girl concludes simply before simply shruggign and holds it for a couple of beats.

Indigo has posed:
    Indigo slides her arm around Viridian's shoulders. Her dark blue skin is a little too smooth, but it's warm and it pulses subtly like a live being's arm would. "It's just the facts," she demurrs, but not insistently. It's nice to be complimented.