two 王 video ○ taka candroid

[controlsdesire]

[When the video starts, the camera is facing down towards a particularly non-descript carpet. While the camera isn't moving around a lot, it is shaking quite a bit, and a small, high-pitched noise accompanies it. It almost sounds like a bird is in the room, though the noise is more mechanical than animal. The noise continues near the camera for another few seconds before the camera moves up and over to a patio door, not showing much of the apartment its in on the way there.

Oddly enough, when the camera reaches the patio door, there's just enough reflection to see that it's a small, red and silver mechanical bird, who begins tapping its beak against the door as if to ask to be let outside. It hovers in front of the door, continuing to make the same mechanical caw.

In the background, there's a voice that only a handful of people on the Network might recognize, speaking in Japanese.]

"Stop recording."

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[controlsdesire]

[Oh, it must be the type that cake guy was talking about.]

This is the only one I have.

[talktothedoll]

[Part of Mort would like to ask to see the robot up close and in person. Maybe he could learn more from it, just as being able to look at Eugene's octopus robot had solidified details of the plan in his mind and allowed him to formulate a few theories on exactly how their grasshopper robot pair worked. But he was still loath to ask this individual for help, as illogical and irrational as it seemed.]

How long have you had it?

[controlsdesire]

A few days. This is the first time I've messed with it.

[There's no way he's talking about the weird broken medal thing he's carrying around. He feels that item is way too personal, whatever it is.]

[talktothedoll]

You waited days to try it out? Perhaps I got swept up in my brother's enthusiasm, but we tested ours right away as soon as we realized what had happened.

[No, he really can't fathom waiting in a situation like that. Eugene's a bad influencce.]

Best to determine if they were dangerous, after all.

[Now, that was all Mort.]

[controlsdesire]

I've been busy.

[talktothedoll]

Best not to get so busy you lose track of something that might prove to be important in all of this.

[controlsdesire]

I don't care about 'all of this.'

[talktothedoll]

You should. It's something that affects us all whether we like it or not.

[controlsdesire]

It affects me very little.

[talktothedoll]

For the moment. No one can predict what's to come.