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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tokiwong" data-source="post: 3556376" data-attributes="member: 961">“Oh what a sweetheart,” Gadget replies.Her head and upper torso disappear up into the ceiling’s tangle of cables.  A moment later she drops down from another open panel, carefully landing on her feet.  She adjusts her glasses, “How did you know I hadn’t eaten?  Okay I guess we can use a break, take fifteen minutes and then we get back work!”The crew relaxes visibly some continue working, others lean back in their chairs closing their eyes and some stumble off to get some much needed nourishment.  Gadget is already tinkering with a control oblivious to the self imposed break, “SARAH keeps telling me I need to take a break, but I am pretty sure that there is so much work to be done, we can’t possibly stop now.  Don’t you think?  Plus Paragon wants this control center secure and fully operational… it is secure… it is operational… but it could stand to use a little more tweaking.  I mean look at this,” she gestures to the now open panel exposing the vital electronics underneath.“It’s like they don’t even care about my poor babies,” she sighs looking wistful, “What have they been doing to them?  Wait did you bring me food?”CassieCardinal stands, “Humanity as our ally?  Humanity is many things, a tool, a source of cheap expendable labor, and perhaps even fodder; but they are not our allies.  They were planning to exterminate us, if our numbers became too numerous.  Their need for self-preservation far exceeds any other desire.”“Do you believe in destiny?” she asks. Ryan, Clover, Anika, and KarenTina looks at the interplay between Ryan and Anika and throws in her two cents, “We want to help James, and you want to help James.  But you are the boss, so if you want to do things the legal way then I am all for it, as long as you can promise results.”Sariyah looks up, “I found them… they are not in Chicago,” she looks at the map running her fingers across the states, pointing to where some relatives live.  Sariyah points, “Right here…”I will allow Karen to pick where said relatives live…</blockquote>

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