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[xps1710.livejournal.com]

[In the midst of everything, an unfamiliar person appears. She doesn't look scared or lost so much as she looks... curious. Tired, too, as evidenced by a huge yawn before she even bothers to look around.]

Very unfamiliar surroundings. [She looks down at herself] And casing-

... 'Cept that isn't casing. Wait a second. What's happening?

[She tries to take a step forward, but stumbles. After barely catching herself, she stares down at her own hands, her breathing quickening.]

... Panic. Um. ... I'm... human?

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[xps1710.livejournal.com]

I shouldn't have a body, I should have casing! I'm not sentient!

...Well. I am now. ... But I wasn't before!

[seamuszharper.livejournal.com]

Not sentient? How can you know the now is wrong if the then didn't have any thinking?

On second thought, back up. What were you before?

[xps1710.livejournal.com]

Dell XPS M1710. Intel Core Duo T2600 processor, NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX graphics card with 512 megabytes DDR Memory... 2 gigs memory at 667 megahertz--...

[takes a deep breath] ... Sorry. I'm... worked up. I guess.

[Though she is mumbling the rest of her specs v. quietly to herself now.]

[seamuszharper.livejournal.com]

So somebody got you an android body? Is that what you're so worked up about? [under his breath] Hell'va low spec machine to move from.

[xps1710.livejournal.com]

Android? What? No. That's something different.

[She walks over, grabs his hand, turns it palm-up and starts poking the center of his palm.] I'm entirely flesh. I'm human.

[And now she half-heartedly glares.] And I'll have you know that in 2005, my specs kicked ass for a portable.

[seamuszharper.livejournal.com]

[He's rolling his eyes at her, and pulls his hand back, shaking it some]

Hey, Rom-doll felt just like a real girl, too, by the time I was done with her, if you know what I mean. What makes you so sure you're not circuits inside? [he's not touching the 2005 stuff]

[xps1710.livejournal.com]

Because nothing feels electronic about me--

[Wait. What did he just....]

... Are you saying you did this to me?

[seamuszharper.livejournal.com]

Would I be asking you questions if I knew what you were before? Besides, it would have almost been more effort than it's worth to pull enough personality out of that kind of system to animate an android. I'm not that good with stone age tech.

[xps1710.livejournal.com]

"Stone age"? How long was I out of commission?!

[She frowns.] But more importantly, if you didn't do it, then what happened? [Pause] You said I could still be circuits inside?

[seamuszharper.livejournal.com]

It's not you, it's me, honey. You should be right up with the times for just about everyone else.

Maybe, maybe not. You're better off finding somebody in charge around here and asking them.

[xps1710.livejournal.com]

Then what's with you?

[Another pause.] I found my user. But otherwise, I still don't know what this is. ... You know a lot about this kind of thing, though. Who are you, anyway?

[seamuszharper.livejournal.com]

I'm not exactly from around here.

Seamus Zelazny Harper, love god of the wonderful planet Earth. A pleasure, I'm sure.

[xps1710.livejournal.com]

Earth has lots of love gods. Venus, Eros, Astarte, maybe even Matt Damon. Never heard of one named Seamus, though.

Nice to meet you, anyway. I'm Kiori.