Aberrant Algorithm.

Home is where the Core Compiles.

"Affectionate back hug," Cyn leant in closer to Uzi hugging her from behind and pressing her head into Uzi's back, "J thinks it would be better if Tessa never found us." Uzi felt her heart drop at Cyn's implied melancholy, even with her monotone voice.

"I-i-if she g-g-gives you a-a-any g-g-grief," Uzi looked back at Cyn a smile on her face moving the hand Cyn had been holding up to comfortingly squeeze the other drone's arm, "I-I-I'll make s-s-s-ure she st-st-stops." Uzi just kept her eyes on Cyn while she let N gently keep leading her by the hand. A comfortable silence settled over the three of them as they walked, eventually, Cyn went from hugging Uzi from behind to walking beside her, Uzi's free arm clutched tightly in her grip almost afraid to let go.

"V are you in here?" N asked as they reached a pair of large wooden doors, gently pushing the doors open to reveal the inside of an expansive library, the distant sounds of shelves being restacked with books. Smiling N led Uzi and Cyn through the shelves towards the sound growing in volume until they turned a corner into a row of shelves filled with books primarily about animals, standing halfway down the aisle was another female worker drone sporting a silver short bob-cut hairstyle and glasses. "V!" N happily called out waving his free hand at the bespectacled, causing them to squeak in alarm only to fumble the book they were placing back on the shelf.

Taking this moment N made his way over to V, letting go of Uzi's hand leaving her and Cyn standing and watching as N briefly conversed with V. Uzi couldn't hear what was being said but it was clear V was nervous around N but not in a fearful way, to Uzi it looked like the glasses wearing drone got easily flustered by N's cheery personality.

"Mischievous giggle," Cyn smirked leaning over close to Uzi's head putting a hand to block the sight of her mouth from N and V, "Gossiping whispering. Big Brother N and V both like each other and don't see it. Sing-song voice."

Watching the other two drones Uzi couldn't help but feel a smile spread on her face, she could see what Cyn was getting at and wondered if it was a secret source of entertainment for her. Uzi would agree with Cyn in watching how the two drones interacted trying to not make it obvious their mutual crush was entertaining it did fill her with a sense of jealousy, no one had ever acted like that for her in either set of memory files inside her processor. She knew Cyn often looked at her with a similar expression but wasn't a crush that was the warm love of family, one day she'd find someone who would look at her like that and whom she could look back at in the same way.

N approached Uzi and Cyn with V following close behind, the closer they got Uzi could see V more clearly and she felt a sense of crippling fear nearly overwhelm her. Like N she had seen V's face before, but unlike with N, it had only been a brief encounter and one she had managed to escape relatively unscathed. 

The last time she had seen V's face, or a face that resembled V's closely enough to burn it into her memory files was feeling a sharp wet tongue slide up her neck as optics filled with a sadistic glee looked down at her before she nearly had her throat torn out. Uzi tried not to let the fear show, she tried to force the memory file down and away so she wouldn't have to ever focus on it. This memory file had other ideas and forced itself to the forefront overlaying V's appearance with the murder drone that had gone to rip her throat out.

Uzi involuntarily opened and closed her hands trying to expel the rising sense of dread building inside her, she couldn't do this the murder drone was back it was going to rip her apart this time. She had to get away, she couldn't fight like this and didn't want to let the murder drone clamp down on her throat again and this time rip it out. Her thoughts of fear and panic were broken by Cyn slipping a hand into one of Uzi's and gently squeezing, which broke her rampantly spiralling thoughts of fear and running.