[center][h3]“ O - hai - yō -zai - masu ~ ”[/h3][/center]
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[indent][indent][indent][indent]𝚂𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚛𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚘𝚗𝚕𝚢 𝚊 𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚝𝚕𝚎 𝚋𝚒𝚝 𝚍𝚒𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚋𝚎𝚜𝚝 𝚏𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚍'𝚜 𝚊𝚕𝚊𝚛𝚖 𝚜𝚝𝚢𝚕𝚎, 𝙽𝚎𝚔𝚝𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚘𝚜' 𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚟𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚊𝚕𝚜𝚘 𝚙𝚎𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚣𝚎𝚍 𝚋𝚢 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚜𝚘𝚛𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚛𝚙𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚘𝚙𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚒𝚜𝚖 𝚘𝚏 𝚞𝚗𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚌 𝚎𝚡𝚙𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚟𝚒𝚛𝚝𝚞𝚊𝚕 𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚐𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚗𝚎𝚜𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚠𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎:[/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent]
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	[color=f9ad81]“It is time to wake up, Nektarios-sama!”[/color] a chiming cybergirl, whistled over a solid, hologram projecting through the Wire's gray reality.  All of it was triggered by a black electronic timer clock, nubbed and nursed with chips from ill-use. Age had given the augment a small glitch that flickered sporadically when she deviated through the plane's path and projected her programming sequence. Nonetheless, her large amethyst eyes blinked and cooed at him as a gentle, excited arm reached to nudge the warmth of her astral pixels onto his scruff cheek, [color=f9ad81]“Nek-[i]tar[/i]-ios-[i]saaamaa...!”[/i][/color] Her tiny voice chimed over-and-over, jingling his name with a fresh bit of excitement each and every time. She was a pixelated pixie and more.

	[color=796efb]“Hnnitan...?”[/color] like a dry scraggly breath through his nostrils, his voice cussed inaudibly with all the annoyance and perplexity, leaning against invalid reasoning.  The blunt attitude was more than likely a cause by his inevitable reliance on such a charming little doll and her overtly sparkling faux-personality. Each and every fucked up morning seemed to produce the same reaction from him, if not a worse one, and each and every morning, her nearly perfect complexion was nestling against him like a bitch in heat, begging for validity in her master's approval and happiness. If Nektarios was bloody honest, when all was said and done, he couldn't deny her form or tantalizing style of intellectual coding. She was programmed to be the way she was, and he'd be a damned liar if he said he didn't love her. It was a love-hate relationship. Call him a pervert or call him brokenhearted, but there was little consolation in anything he did without Tamago-tan.

	[color=silver][i]Nah, man. Fuck it.[/i][/color] 

	He had his younger, lone star mate, Adam, but there was only so much male camaraderie could do for one man's sanity. Fuck it, again. Who the fuck was he kidding? Adam was more messed up than he was, in more than one way. The guy barely had a backbone, and he meant that like as a friend, a comrade. The bastard wasted most of his nonworking life trapped in Silicon Valley, and he wasn't referencing the equally toxic city south of Seattle. Nektarios didn't judge, though. He loved the man, even if he was a dick about it. Soft love was for cybercoms. Real love, the tough stuff was where he put his true loyalty. He'd die for the boy, with or without warrant. He was hardly legalistic at this point in his middle aged life span and neither was Adam.

	 Enough about Adam, though. He had to wake up, if not for his own fucking good but for the ever-so-lovely dragon lady. Nah, fuck the dragon lady. He'd wake up because Tamago-tan asked him, too. She was such a dream girl to him... Thoughts shifting... unlike his ex-wife. [color=f9ad81]“Nektar-Nektar-Nek-tar-ios-[i]saaamaa...!”[/i][/color] Tamago-tan cheered through Nekatarios' thoughts before he could roll through another mental health trip of how he had been completely fucked over by the supposed-love of his life, who not only dumped his army ass for some old pig like a thirsty beggar on the side of the street eating sewer hot dogs, while he was off making doe for her and the family to eat like a proper human being, but she stole his son and daughter, his Goddamn fucking children, you know, his bloody motherfucking livelihood.. and then she had the audacity to suck him dry like a hooker trying to keep her body from being dumped in Elliot Bay with only God knows how much mula in child pay- [color=f9ad81]“Wakey! Wakey!”[/color]

	[color=796efb]“I'm up. I'm fucking up,”[/color] he grunted and turned his body militantly, knocked the augmented figure's mechanics off kilter. [color=796efb]“Fuck it. Damnit."[/color]  He didn't bother to apologize. He tithed enough for her to be pushed around worse than he was at work. She never minded in an angry manner because she was a good little girl like that, always congratulating his ass for having listened to him. She was a complete softie for him, even when he hated her with those long pink, loopty-loo pigtails.

	[color=f9ad81]“Eggs and bak[i]ey!”[/i][/color] Tamago-tan continued and then balled her small hands like paws and playfully cheered the air in front of her.

	Nektarios' own pale, calloused knuckles hit the stiffness of his metal coffin and immediately began pumping his muscular body up-and-down with breathes inhaling towards the shoddy sleeping pad and exhaling towards the death bed's lid. All the while, Tamago-tan began cheering him on by counting his routine and complimenting his strength like an overly obsessed fangirl who never knew anyone but him, which was mostly true. She really would never know anyone but him. Her coding said so, and he chose her coding over the truth. To hell, she fawned over him like a slave to his celebrity whims. He couldn't ask for anything like that from the nagging leach in the next town over, hording his own kin from him. From his perspective, coding never failed unless some angsty teenage hacker with a degree in computer programming that mommy and daddy bought them was involved. Or... of course, if the code was a late night call that sounded awfully like his ex-wife cozying up to the receiver like: [color=silver][i]Please, keep me company at night, Henry-san, while my hard-boiled husband is putting his life on the line by fighting abroad for [i]his[/i] company's sanctions with the Megacorp. Nnnnyan ~[/i][/color]

	No. She sounded way better. He killed himself every time he thought about the truth.

	[color=f9ad81]“Anata wa sore o suru koto ga dekimasu! Go, Nekt[i]ah[/i]san! You are [i]soooo[/i] strong! Ooh! Ooh! Nektah[i]san![/i] Ooouu ~ ! [i]Shi! Go! Roku! Nana! Hachi![/i]... Watashi wa anata o [i]Kyu![/i] totemo hokori ni omoimasu! I am so very proud of you! [i]Juuku! Nijuu!... Nijuuichi!”[/i][/color] The cybercoms girlish voice cheerfully counted his push-ups, interjecting coddles for coded gratification as her master/owner huffed and occasionally grumbled, growling something about if his roommate had woken up, yet. It didn't sound like Adam had, and damnit to hell, he better had, but fuck if he was getting old and was just hearing shit like the decrepit piece of junk living space that hosted them. Maybe his hearing would go sooner so he wouldn't have to listen to the CEO's bratty shrill command him around anymore. Who was he kidding? They'd drop his meatskin like his ex-wife did if he lost his hearing, and he needed the doe. Damn this metal prison.