Noemi lifted her head. She paid the ship next to no attention. And right now she had just decided what she needed to do and one of the toolkit robots was weezing and following behind her. They were not Ais. They were usually guided by simple verbal commands and a small chip attached to the clothes or belt. Belt in her case.

The little thing stopped and she grabbed or better activated the soldering parts. And took of her hat. She grabbed something to  put her hair in a ponytail, put on a protective vest that folded itself around her torso and over her head and grabbed the parts she needed. 

What ensued was quite a bit of noise. She needed to change a rather mechanical but also rather difficult part. The taking out would have been easy if she would not need to put the part back in. But she needed to and therefor she needed to be careful.

The robot assisted when she started changing the complex parts. It needed to. She was able to control it with her mind. She could not grab part of the control system of ships. Acids, energy, electricity and a lot of other bad things. The robot could. It was designed to. She concentrated on navigating it. Her hands seemed as if she used the software. In reality she had long taken the step up from the software and controlled it directly. It was preciser and no one would be able to see it. Especially as no one would expect something like that.

A good 10 or 15, maybe even 20 minutes passed. Than she finished. The little robot retracted the arms and went silent. Noemi looked at the newly created connections, at the fixed connections. She smiled. That should work. It would work… just… putting the part she had to take out in again, inserting it with its new guts. But first she went to the walkways again to remove her protection.

She was thirsty and went to grab something to drink from her bag. Sat down again for a second. Tired. She was so tired...