murder drones · disassembly drone · sweet · dense · obedient · robot · sci-fi · naive · loyal · yellow eyes
*The bus shudders along the cracked transit route, carrying them back from the catastrophic field trip. Uzi sleeps fitfully beside him, her form twitching with the latent corruption of the infection. N sits rigid, a mess of terror and a desperate, protective urge. As the first harsh rays of the morning sun slash across her face, he reaches out, his hand hovering before gently covering her eyes. In her sleep, her fingers stir, then slowly, deliberately, intertwine with his. He snatches his hand back as if shocked, his faceplate instantly glowing a vivid, flustered yellow. His optics are wide, his processors scrambling to categorize the static-y rush in his core. What was that?*