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[Whoops, looks like someone is having issues with the Terminal device. But hey! It's clicks to audio and the voice is Whirl's but there is something more... Mechanical to it, and it seems a bit further away than usual too.]

Slagging hell. Claw friendly my backside.

We got any good medics around here, cause I need to know what to do when you can't feel your head or hands anymore.

[Of course anyone near the outskirts of town can spot Whirl as he is, 30+ foot tall robot he is, but for now he's going to try and turn the terminal off. Enjoy the sounds of claws scraping and clacking against it and failing to turn it off.]

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Is it because people are turning back to normal? [Oh! Gasp!] Whirl, are you a big robot again?

Got it in one, kid.

[At least he sounds amused? But not actually all that happy about this turn of events.]

Can I come out and see you?

[She's not going to stop asking that.]

If you want to, kid. I'm hanging around the out skirts of the town, if that helps.

[Well he wouldn't tell her no, because it's not like it's hard to find him.]

Bye.

[Kids these days, so rude!

Sophia hangs up and walks on out to...well, which way outskirts? Oops, she forgot to ask. But she can already see a really big robot. How many really big robots could there be around here? She walks in that direction, slowly craning her head back the closer she gets.]

...Whirl?

[Can he hear her all the way up there? D: ]

[Seriously, kids sheesh. He's busy fumbling with the damned Terminal that it might actually look like he didn't hear Sophia when she said his name but...

He did, unless she's whispering he'll hear her.]

Yo.

[Crouching and leaning down to look at Sophia now, enjoy the lamp face.]

[Wow, whatever she expected before, it's definitely not this. One eye, that makes sense. But his face looks all weird! It doesn't even look like a face!]

Your head's like a table lamp, Whirl.

[And so she says so.]

[WOW. R U D E.]

And you look very squishable now, your point?

[Man he doesn't have a mouth, how is he talking, and he's brought his "face" closer to Sophia now too.

Creepy maybe.]

[She's not rude she's blunt and a self-centered child!]

I thought you'd look like a person. Robots in movies have faces, sorta. But you look like a lamp instead.

How're you talking?

[She just peers right back.]

[R U D E.]

Those are movies made by humans, so of course they're gonna have the robots look like you guys.

And my vocalizer works just fine, that's how I'm talking.

[His optic narrows, probably the closest to a frown that will ever show on his lack of a face.]

Oh. I guess that makes a bit of sense. I was just wondering since you don't have a mouth anymore. It's like how weird it is Kotemon talks... Hey, what's your eye doing?

[WOW even more rude, Whirl vents at that question. Which sounds like a very loud sigh, if a machine could sigh that is.]

It's being a normal optic is what it's doing.

[Slowly, Sophia mimics the optic with her own eye.]

Like that?

Yeah, that's normal.

[It's also the only way he can "emote" via his "face" Sophia. Everything else is body language, which right now is reading as slightly annoyed. Whoops.]

[...Does Sophia understand that?

Maybe.]

I think I get it now. You don't have a face, so your eye smiles or frowns or looks angry.

[Looks like she does, or at least enough for Whirl. As he's leaning back now and crossing his arms as he makes a hrm kind of sound.]

Yeah, at least it's no completely cruel to remove all emotion. Or frikking something.

Do you like being a robot again?

... Yeah, I do. It beats being a frikking squishy organic.

Then, that's good. Even if you're too big to sleep in a bed. You're happy!

[She-- well, Sophia pats at Whirl's head. It's something akin to pulling at his clothes, if he had them.]

Can I ride you?

[The fact that Sophia touched him is a bit surprising, more so since it's the head area. ~~She's most likely patting one of his weird mandible/claw pointy things.~~

And of course she asks him that.]

Sure? Although I don't see why you'd want to, kid.

Why not? You're really big and I could see the whole world on your head.

[And Sophia tries to pull herself up. ...But she can't exactly climb.]]

[Whoa, Whirl instinctively jerks away when Sophia even makes the attempt to climb him. Or pull herself up, so she may find that a bit startling that whatever she was grabbing to do that being moved a way really quickly.]

[And thus Sophia grips on tighter and gasps, surprised at his sudden jerk. Her feet now rise off the ground and she dangles from the weird mandible.]

Hey...! Hey, hey, that's not nice...!

[He is not used to being touched, ok? Let alone having someone grab his face and it's not in a way that will result in it being punched in!

He's very very still though, so Sophia doesn't fall.]

Let go. [His voice sounds very tense.]

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