and I need someone to talk to apart from you

[animusnpcs]

Characters: Zo, open
Setting: floor 001
Format: brackets, party-style
Summary: Zo visits the residential levels of the Tower.
Warnings: none so far

[The elevator dings as its doors slide open--that's not an unusual occurrence, really, for a floor that not only houses one of the elevator stopping points but also the most reliable food sources. What's unusual, though, is the boy who steps out of it.

Zo enters the cafeteria, looking around as if he hasn't seen it in some time, which is true. He's followed by one retrieval unit. While she looks as blank as any retrieval unit, her collar is chipped and she wears glasses. In fact, she might be a bit familiar to some, though she will not respond (but there's something... Unusually alive about her, even so).

Though he's careful not to stray far from his bodyguard, he smiles at the floor in general.]

Um... Hi! Wow, it's been a while since I've been up here!

Comments

I couldn't resist, sorry

[ambassadorasshat]

[Hello Zo, meet half-asleep redhead. Awake enough to operate the elevator, but not enough to avoid running into children on his way to get food.]

Hey, watch out, kid...

[animusnpcs]

[Zo stumbles and nearly falls, but his retrieval unit catches him before he hits the floor.]

Um, are you okay?

[ambassadorasshat]

[Oops.]

I'm fine.

[Glancing at that retrieval unit, then back to Zo.]

...Who are you?

[animusnpcs]

I'm Zo. [He picks himself back up properly and smiles.] I'm visiting!

[ambassadorasshat]

Visiting? Don't you live here?

[Unless he means the cafeteria...either way, that's a strange choice of words.]

[animusnpcs]

Yeah, but I live downstairs, so I'm visiting up here.

[ambassadorasshat]

Downstairs? Like, in the basement? Why don't you have a collar like everyone else does?

[Luke asks the important questions.]

[animusnpcs]

Since I've got a real body and you guys don't, so I don't need liquid.

[ambassadorasshat]

Oh, right. Yeah, thanks for reminding me...

[A scowl for you, Zoe.]

[animusnpcs]

Ah, I'm sorry. I couldn't bring your bodies...

And then I spelled the kid's name wrong, oops

[ambassadorasshat]

[He doesn't want to say he doesn't care about that, but he doesn't know exactly what to say, so he just shrugs.]

Whatever. Can you bring back people who've left? My friend disappeared a...a month ago, I think...can you bring him back?

[animusnpcs]

I try to, but I can't always. If I can, then I do, but when I lose my grip on someone it's hard to get it back.