9th Cubic Zirconium [Action/Dictated]

[yay_heiress]

[London is hot. It's summer and the sun is plentiful, but the cool breezes? Not so much. If you happen to see the heiress today, it'll likely be near the pond in the garden. She's lounging in a comfortable poolside chair donning a colorful two-piece, a floppy sun hat, and shades. She holds a silver tanning reflector beneath her chin and the cup holder on the arm of her chair houses a sweaty glass of pink lemonade. Her dog Ivanna has a miniature version of the poolside furniture, although hers is underneath the protective shadow of London's.

The heiress puts down the reflector just long enough to pull out her journal and speak into it.]

Does anyone else around here tan? I can't be the only one. Or maybe I am. Everyone around here is so pasty. A little sun couldn't hurt, people!

[She leaves her journal open beside her and resumes her tanning.]

Comments

[whistles_the_blues]

Fake skin doesn't really tan, so I'll have to say no to that.

[yay_heiress]

Fake skin? How do you have fake skin? What's it made of?

[whistles_the_blues]

Mostly latex. It's what I was made with.

[yay_heiress]

Well if you have fake skin, you can get fake tan, right?

[whistles_the_blues]

I... Don't think it works that way. At all.

[yay_heiress]

It doesn't?

Well! There goes my idea of getting fake skin when my real skin gets too old!

[whistles_the_blues]

Sorry to have burst your bubble.

[yay_heiress]

So how come you have fake skin?

[whistles_the_blues]

Because I was built with it, makes me look more human.

[yay_heiress]

You mean you aren't a human?

[whistles_the_blues]

That's pretty much what I just said. I'm a Robot, A Robot Master to be exact.

[yay_heiress]

A robot master?

Ooh! Does that make you better than all the other robots?

[whistles_the_blues]

I guess in a sense. I'm more built to help robots and human work together better, I can issue commands to less intelligent robots to make them work more efficiently.

[yay_heiress]

You make the robots work?
What did they ever do to you?

[whistles_the_blues]

Well no, other people make them work, I can just tell them how to do it differently. ...And honestly I've never done it before in the first place.

[yay_heiress]

Ohhh. I guess that's not so bad.

But wait! If you've never done it, how do you know you can?

[whistles_the_blues]

The command is programmed into me? I know I can, but I've never had to do it before.

[yay_heiress]

Ohhh.

[She doesn't actually get it, but she's willing to let it slide.]