Aberrant Algorithm.

Home is where the Core Compiles.

Uzi took a simulated shudder breath and focused her optics on V again as she got closer, she squeezed Cyn's hand back if Cyn was comfortable around V she could do it. uzi began to repeat on loop in her processor a simple phase 'V is not a murder drone' over and over forcing it to become an accepted fact in her mind.

"Hey, Cyn is your sister okay?" N asked concerned, as he looked at Uzi's widened twitching optics, "Should we take her back to Tessa?"

"Head shake. No Big Brother N,"  Cyn patted Uzi's arm in comfort, "Reassuring smile. Sister Uzi is unique, like all of us." Cyn looked back at N with a smile on her face.

"Okay," N said sceptically gently tapping Uzi's shoulder to get her attention, "Uzi this is V," N kept his voice soft and calm hoping it wouldn't spook Uzi anymore than something already had, "And V this is Uzi, the other drone Tessa found with Cyn."

"Hello," V offered a soft smile to Uzi and a gentle wave, "It's nice to see you no longer stuck in reboot."

Uzi finally snapped out of the brief lock-up of panic at those words, "y-y-you saw m-m-me like t-t-t-that?" That helped her enforce her looping internal monologue about V, if she'd been a murder drone then she'd have killed her when she was helpless.

V nodded taking a second to reposition her glasses, "I helped Tessa with your hair, the lilac tint is really nice," V smiled softly pointing out the lilac tips of Uzi's hair fading back into the same grey as hers, "Tessa was surprised when we finished it your hair it did that."

Uzi just smiled at the compliment and moved a free hand up to touch her hair, "T-t-thank you," she looked away catching both N and Cyn's smiling faces, N even giving her a double thumbs up, before turning to look back towards V and noticing the large stack of books sitting on the table. Taking a moment to steady herself Uzi squashed the fear further down, 'V was not a murder drone' she told herself once more to further cement the idea in her head, "W-w-would you l-l-like some h-h-help putting t-t-the book a-a-away?"

At the offer, V blinked taken by surprise, "Oh no that's okay, I've got it covered," She tried to wave off Uzi's offer to help, having picked up on the fact something was still making Uzi terrified.

"It's n-n-no trouble," Uzi let go of Cyn's hand and stepped forward, "I-I-I'd really l-l-like to h-h-help," Uzi looked down while the fear that V was the murder drone that had sent tried to rip her throat out had faded a new fear had taken its place, one more tied to her new memory files, a simple fear of being rejected again even when trying to help, "pl-pl-please." Her voice was nearly inaudible as she asked.

V reached out and placed an arm on Uzi's shoulder getting her attention, "Well if you want," V stepped to the side so she could lead Uzi over to the pile, "I'll show you how we organise them."

Cyn tilted her head watching the exchange as Uzi and V smiled more her right eye flickering and briefly getting replaced by the hexagonal symbol, turning her optics on and off again to refresh her regular optics so nobody would notice the symbol. Cyn felt something pulse form within her before it ebbed away into nothing, she knew it was the thing she had bargained with while lying in that pile of discarded drones just as it had told her when she had asked once about the feeling, "Conforming the fabric of existence to its new reality." Cyn didn't know what that meant but she really didn't care, it had held up its side of the deal so Cyn was content to let it do whatever it was doing.

Before N could walk over and Join V and Uzi Cyn gripped his sleeve getting his attention and winked at him, "Plotting wink. Come on big brother N, let sister Uzi and V be friends," Cyn gently tugged on his sleeve as she turned to walk out of the library listening to V's soft voice and Uzi's stuttering damaged one at the start of a conversation, "Joyful suggestion. We can go find Tessa and ask about dogs."