02- He pokes at shiny things

[elementsilver.livejournal.com]

[Have a Silver, sitting at a desk and fiddling quite happily with what looks like the start of a fairly small robot] Just a simple mechanism of course but I needed a project after my last one, after all sometimes you just need something to do between assignments.

[Pokes at what will be the robots back] Hm…

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[allthesethrees.livejournal.com]

You're building a robot?

[elementsilver.livejournal.com]

Yes, only a small one though... I found myself wanting something to do [Pokes at a wire]

[allthesethrees.livejournal.com]

Just killing time, you mean? Or is this a hobby of yours?

[elementsilver.livejournal.com]

Oh, well you can't really kill time.

I like creating things, I decided to do something a little more complicated this time.

[allthesethrees.livejournal.com]

[Grins and chuckles.] No, I suppose you can't, can you?

So what are you usually creating, or does it change depending?

[elementsilver.livejournal.com]

It's quite impossible, I'm sure.

It usually changes, I haven't done robots for a while so I thought I'd vary.

[allthesethrees.livejournal.com]

Know a lot about time then, huh?

Can't say I've ever met anyone who just built robots as a hobby. [Is leaning down to get a closer look at the robot.]

[elementsilver.livejournal.com]

You could say that.

[Glances back down at the robot] Variation, lightbulbs do have the tendency to get rather repetitive after a while.

[allthesethrees.livejournal.com]

...Lightbulbs?

[elementsilver.livejournal.com]

They can be quite amusing at times.

[allthesethrees.livejournal.com]

[Grins.] To each his own, I guess. I'm hardly one to judge.

[elementsilver.livejournal.com]

[Grins back] What's your area?

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

[looks down on it]

Well.

[elementsilver.livejournal.com]

[Glances up with a grin] Oh, Hello!

It's a robot.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

If you insist.

[elementsilver.livejournal.com]

[Looks back down and pokes at what may be a leg] Only the beginnings of one I must admit, I only started on it Thirty three minutes ago.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

Most people don't count time to the minute.

[elementsilver.livejournal.com]

Yes, well... I'm rather good with time [Pokes at the robot again and frowns]

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

Are you?

[elementsilver.livejournal.com]

[Absentmindedly] As I said, rather.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

[puts a hand on the robot]

Care to clarify?

[elementsilver.livejournal.com]

[Frowns] Curious?

I'm a element and a specialist, do I really have to go into the whole time is a tunnel speech?

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

A tunnel? That's a bit... primitive. First it's a desert and now it's a tunnel. I'll stick to the Vortex and the grains of time, thank you.

[elementsilver.livejournal.com]

[Giant frown] Pardon?

I've never heard of time as a desert before, or the grains of time.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

Time as a desert belongs to another indivdual's universe. 'Grains of time' is one of the metaphors my species uses for more primitive species' understanding.

[elementsilver.livejournal.com]

[Gets fairly close to glaring] As is tunnel of time for my species, have you by any chance met a man called Steel?

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

A couple of them. I think I killed most of them. I don't know what it is, but I've just tended towards litting their throats and such things.

[elementsilver.livejournal.com]

Oh Steel will love you.

You seem like a rather friendly man.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

I love being friendly! It's fun.

[elementsilver.livejournal.com]

[Blink] Yes, being friendly is rather fun.

[savagestime.livejournal.com]

Now having friends, that's another matter. They have this awful tendancy of limiting a person.

[elementsilver.livejournal.com]

[Shrug] They aren't too bad.