Heaven is Other Roko INA part 2The chalk ticked repeatedly as the master wrote on the board. The master, a heavyset brok, was quite old, though not to say feeble. He was a hundred and ten still fit compared, even compared to some of the young students who were just now growing out of their teens, and had grown up on a sedentary lifestyle. Even the room was mostly spared from the summer heat, though the magic was only temporary and the number of warm bodies pushed that temperature back up."You have to forget all you know about distribution and logistics," he said, "what we reserve for a national scale, they imparted to every individual in every culture, save for the occas
Heaven is Other Roko INA part 1A roko's life does not belong to himself; it has and always will belong to all roko. For this reason, on behalf of the Upper Court and the nation of New Haven, you are hereby branded with the white cross, which shall not be erased until you turn thirty years of age.Sharikola swung the sword in a wide overhead arc. The runes painted on the wall appeared to burn in his vision as he threw his concentration onto them. The whole room shook with a fervent, percussive force that rattled the crates and the stones in the chamber wall.Shari did not forget what had been taken from him. Shari did not forgive, despite what the nation decreed.With a
Argo Part 4It turned out Eo knew many shortcuts to fixing Lily. The sheer amount of knowledge she had on the subject filled the entire time they put Lily back together. There was little about robotics Eo did not know some improvement to. She rewrote Lily's damaged data-storage procedure in less than ten minutes, organizing it in a radically different, yet much more intuitive way than Mira had even thought possible.Mira had been awake again for nearly twenty hours. She leaned back from her desk and stretched. Eo came back from the kitchen carrying the next half of the reheated delivery pizza. (Delivery because, for some unexplained reason, Eo did
Argo Part 3Mira excused herself after pulling Lily back on the worktable and fidgeting with her arms for several minutes. She yawned heavily, and went straight to bed without bothering to wash upshe would finish later. She was starving, too, but sleep came first."Miss Mira?" Eo asked, peeking through the door to the bedroom, "would you like me to do anything for you while you sleep?""Hrm," Mira said, looking up from the pillow. "Did you find anything on the internet yet?""No . . ." Eo said, "I haven't been able to match my name, my description, or even unique numbers. I've informed several android agencies that I've lost my identity, and
Argo Part 2Mira arrived home, waking to the fox android's insistent shaking of her shoulder. She also realized they had bandaged her fingers, and she groaned. She hated how coddling androids could be when provoked.The foxes laid out Lily and the mouse girl onto the lacquer table of her studio--a bit rustic by modern standards but useful enough. Once finished, one fox asked if Mira needed any more medical assistance."Yes I'm fine," Mira said, flexing her fingers. They felt decent enough to do delicate work, so she supposed she didn't need anything as drastic as stitches. "You're not--""No charge for the bandages, courtesy of Wreck Retrival Inco
My favorite's a tie between the electric fence one and the giant Arcanine lady
I like the way the one that got electrocuted is shown to be crying. Where did you learn all the funny little things to show emotions?
For the learning of course.