Genre(s): Science Fiction/Romance
Rating: T (as according to fictionpress)
Characters In Chapter: Samara Crichton, Nazilla, Kered
Relationship(s): Samara Crichton/Nazilla, Nazilla/Glau
I was growing restless because of how ineffective I was being with repairing Glau. Each day added even more hours that made me feel useless. Each night Samara would try to calm me down either through talking or sex. Both ways weren’t effective at all. Every time the sun rose I felt even more useless.
“Don’t worry.” Samara said as she finished getting dressed.
“You’ll figure this out or Kered will find a way to help us.”
“I am unsure that the man that wants to destroy the M-3 will
be the one to help us.”
“Do you have a better idea?”
“No.”
“You’re going to ask me to ask him, right?”
“He will hardly take any advice from a Machine. It’ll be
better coming from you.”
Besides Samara being a human, she actually had Kered’s basic
mindset. When I had been human, she had been the more stable of us. She would
cut right to the points that Kered would be interested in. Still, it made me
feel weak that a hum-that someone else could do something that I should be
easily able to do.
If I had still been human could I have a chance at
convincing Kered? Or would it still be Samara who would be the only one to be
able to convince him?
Probably only Samara could even if I had still been human,
he didn’t seem like he was the joking type and so my human antics would have
annoyed him. But he would be more accepting of me at least. He would be okay
with my joking side because I wasn’t a Machine. A Machine, at least to him, was
always worse than a human.
To try and calm myself, I did yard work. I scanned
everything while I was outside as that calmed me. It calmed me to have to use
up so much that I could actually not really think for a few minutes. I focused
on the temperature of the air and all the sounds I heard among many other
things.
It was calming.
As I finished up the yard work, I waited to hear Samara come
to me and tell me that Kered had decided not to help us. What other option
would he take? He would probably look at all the information I had gathered and
decide that was enough information.
He probably wouldn’t want to work hard to repair Glau. Glau
was just too broken and Kered had to look at the bigger picture.
After I was done washing up after working outside, Samara
finally told me his answer.
“Really?” I asked. “Kered has agreed to help fix Glau?”
“We’ll be visiting the Wind Karma whom he is going to speak
with.” Samara said with a weak smile, putting her hand on my shoulder. “This is
what you want, right?”
“It’s what is good for Karma.”
“No, it’s what’s good for you.”
“I’m not petty like I was when I was human, Samara.”
“Do you love me?”
“Yes.”
“Then you might be a little more human than you think you
are.” Samara said with a worried grin.
I didn’t want to tell her that she was wrong and that I had
been changed by my death. I couldn’t tell her that because she had hopes and I
didn’t want to take any of them away from her. So all I did was give her a nod
and then she told me the rest of the instructions as we both went down to the
basement.
Glau looked at me and I could see the two sides of her
warring to try and take control. I went over to her and thought of the best way
to take her chip out without damaging her further.
As I carefully took it out, the Machine side started to take
over. She yelled and shouted as I took her chip out. Her struggling made it
nearly impossible for me to take the chip out without damaging it. That was
probably her goal, she would rather die than become a member of Karma.
There was some nobility in that. There was nobility in
preferring death over the loss of freedom. But that didn’t help me now and I
could feel Samara’s nervous eyes on me.
I finally managed to remove Glau’s chip and handed it to
Samara. She then put it into a container to help better protect it.
“Kered doesn’t trust me.” I said as I watched her put the
container into one of her pockets.
“You knew that.” Samara replied.
If Kered had trusted me he would have allowed me to remove
the chip by myself. It wasn’t exactly a job that required two people. But I was
a Machine and therefore couldn’t be trusted. I knew Kered was in a position where
he had to be that careful, but that didn’t mean his suspicion stopped hurting.
A few hours later and I was helping to load up the car.
Kered’s eyes seemed to keep a constant focus on me as if I couldn’t be trusted
for even a second. I worked faster than normal just so he would stop looking at
me.
“Nazilla,” Kered said as I helped him pack his suitcase.
“Why do you really want to repair the M-3? Samara does a good job with lying,
but I can tell she’s covering for you.”
“I merely want what is best for Karma. If that means
spending time and effort to repair a broken Machine, then I think the stress is
worth it.”
“You better be telling me the truth.”
There was no more talking between any of us as we finished
packing and left. Glau was in the trunk and Samara was driving. I got the back
seat and Kered got the passenger seat. I looked at Samara’s house as we left it
behind.
Did I want to repair Glau because she had a use to Karma or
was it because of something more personal? I loved Samara, but I felt something
for Glau that I couldn’t explain. I didn’t want to explore my feelings for Glau
as they would just get in my way of being a useful member of Karma and
girlfriend of Samara.
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