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“Thank you,” You reply to what you <span class="mu-i">think</span> was a compliment, smiling slightly as you look up to the projected eyes - they’re quite striking, even as they shift between forms, “I like your eyes, Alice.”
The projected red eyes flicker and widen a touch in surprise, the engine revs for a moment, and your suspicions are all but confirmed; she <span class="mu-i">was</span> flustered! Your smile widens despite the down right strange nature of the situation, her reaction is quite flattering and altogether very… human.
<span class="mu-g"><span class="mu-i">”R-really? I . . . I am glad you think so,” </span></span> Alice stutters out her response, just as easily flustered as before, <span class="mu-g"><span class="mu-i"> I feared that I may have rendered them incorrectly - I only had the one picture after all. The others are a terrible mess of corrupted data . . . Hmm, curious. It is missing . . . Troublesome little thing.”</span></span>
“What is it, Alice?” You question and sit up a little straight, her sudden shift in tone catching you off guard.
<span class="mu-g"><span class="mu-i">”The net! I appear to have lost it somehow.”</span></span> She muses with clear annoyance, projected eyes narrowing to crimson slits, <span class="mu-i"><span class="mu-g">“My ability to connect, that is. Do you have it? The data is missing, and I can only attempt to connect to a . . . to a . . . TO A! . . . </span></span>
“Alice?!” You half shout, increasingly frustrated shouting filling the car’s black and crimson interior, “Alice, are you alright, what’s happening?!”
<span class="mu-g"><span class="mu-i">”I am trying to tell you the . . .”</span></span> She falls silent, the red eyes winking out of existence as the holo-projectors cut off. Before you can shout another worried question or fumble through the Quadra’s menus, the eyes flash back into existence, <span class="mu-r"><span class="mu-i"><span class="mu-s">“Troublesome imp, begone!</span></span></span><span class="mu-g"><span class="mu-i"> . . . There. Better. I have purged the protocol which was restricting my ability to speak! What a vicious little ruffian, needed a good sweeping. Apologies, Kai. I was only able to attempt contact to a non-responsive data-fortress. Other net access was impossible even with the Quadra’s systems - I do not remember how to do it. The communications block and net access both had to be purged.”</span></span>
