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[formidable]

Androids, psychics, magic, investigations, and finding out how to human. ➢ Cool Mood Music No. 1 ➤ Cool Mood Music No. 2

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[determinare]

[Connor looks at the young child curiously, tilting his head in consideration. And a part of him, driven by reason, sees nothing at all wrong with this suggestion.

Another part of him, something more than just logic and efficiency, simply thinks it’d be nice.

So he extends his hand at Ai. An invitation.]

So you don’t get lost, like he said. Right?

[emotive]

[She looks at his hand and then back at Connor, thinking. Ai extends her hand and puts it in his, fingers curling.]

Let's go back then. We don't want to make Sumo and Hank worried right?

[determinare]

[Her fingers curl around his own, and Connor returns the gesture with a little squeeze. For a moment, this connection jumps itself to the forefront of his mind. That feeling of acute awareness, her skin against his own synthetic illusion of it.

(Connor wonders, briefly, if it would be possible to share information and emotion like this, the way androids do. If her powers would allow such a thing, should she ever be willing to delve into his mind and him open up this access to see what lies within. But that’s too bold, even Connor knows that’s too intimate, and he wonders then why he had thought of it to begin with.)

He walks forward, along the fringes of a dying crowd.]

Hank will probably get home later than us. But we’ll be there when he does. Sumo could use some attention right now, maybe.

[emotive]

[Ai's hand feels small around Connor's like the rest of her. For a second she wonders if she had been truly been able to grow up in the few years since she separated herself from other psychics. And it makes her think about how spending time with this android who has discovered his own sense of self and who wanted the same for those like him, has made her make leaps, made her take chances. What other changes will there be?

She wants to be there with him throughout all those changes. Ai doesn't pay attention to anyone else around them as a line forms for taxis. She focuses on holding his hand, letting him know she won't let go.]

Feel up to a late night movie? It might help me fall asleep.

[determinare]

Of course.

[He sounds briefly amused at the notion.]

Something scary again?

[emotive]

That's going to do the opposite.

[But she laughs at his suggestion and it fades away into the memory of the night they shared with everyone around them, like a firework itself...]