[IC] A Brave New World?

[Lullyn]

She gave him an innocent smile when he mentioned hitting someone with it. The smile said, how could someone as sweet and innocent as me possibly hit anyone, let alone with this big thing? Her eyes said, because sometimes you just do. She listened with what looked like awed fascination, her eyes moving only to take in what he pointed at. He sounded….. excited? Maybe hyperactive was more to the point, but she liked someone passionate about their work. It meant that they’d do a good job. She’d admit, she didn't get much of what he’d said, but the jist was that it should work better. She’d been told that before…. Once he’d began looking at the Mercury, she felt like she should be holding something, but just because she wasn't packing didn't mean she was unarmed. No woman ever was. But he’d given her a careful look and now was he jabbering a constant stream of words which her brain took a moment to process. She watched the bugs with an intent curiosity, much more than she’d probably shown in anything else since she’d arrived. She never seen anything like them, and she’d been in quite a few places where tech was the workers 1st passion But when the little (creatures) began to pull on the hair, she raised a hand and held the front to prevent it from being removed. “Can you do me a tiny favor?” she said, keeping her voice sweet. “Can you call off your friends? There are times when I don’t mind being poked and prodded, but not with 3 gentlemen in the room. And Mercury is not just a tool.” The last part was added with just a hint of protective annoyance, like a lioness seeing something 100 yards from it’s cub and giving it one chance to change it’s direction. Break that, and I will not be happy, the tone said. She hadn't been prepared for the bug, nor did she look happy once it had removed her second sight, as she called it. “He’s not a toy,” she reminded him, though she was half wondering if the last guy had set her up, sending her to a obsessive. He’d see her later if this didn't go well. But the man had clearly lost his momentary interest with her, his addresses going to the other men in the room and saying things she didn’t quite understand, like she’d missed part of a conversation. “In what?” she said, when she was addressed again, almost reactive rather than because she meant to say it. Regaining herself, she added, “most gentleman introduce themselves first, but since you’re obviously no gentleman,” implying the previous treatment, “I’m Chastity. Ms is probably quicker to say though.”

[Raven_Operative]

Zap! Ryan jumped as he felt a painful shock at his hand, prying his attention from the engineer infront of him. Zap! This time, Ryan dodged the shock, swatting the tiny hoverbot away with his other hand. When Eric mentioned that he should hand over the rifle, he was skeptical at first, but another sudden shock was enough to make him reluctantly hand it over. He still had his primitive silenced pistol, so it was not like he was completely without protection. He just hoped this madman didn't break it. "Ryan. Ryan Valcris." Ryan shook the man's hand in the brief span of attention that was dedicated to him. "Might I have yours, friend?" He swatted away another bot that looked like it was about to zap at the inner pocket where he kept his pistol. No, not again. This one stayed with him at all times.