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Chapter Fifteen

Father

I know I promised myself that I wouldn't kill Rox, but this was something that I couldn't bear to stand. I struggled to get him off me, but it was very hard with a machine that unlike me, couldn't feel the pain of hurt.

"Rox, my daughter. I'm begging you to take me back. Let me reason with your master," I said as I was pulled with force. I tried hard to force my legs to stay, but I only felt the strain of being pulled back. I didn't want to kill him, but for my daughter's safety I would kill an entire army if I could.

"The master has ordered me to release you. Is that not what you wanted?"

"Not like this Rox! Not at the expense of losing my daughter. You take me back. Take me back now!" I barked, but Rox would not stop to listen and his tone seemed unchanged by the dramatic circumstances around us. I realized that I had been fooled to believe that he had any feelings whatsoever. He was nothing but a machine after all and I should have killed him when I had the chance to do so.

"I have been ordered to release you and so I will perform my duties," Rox said.

"Rox stop. I promise I'll leave this ship, just stop for a moment," I said and Rox stopped. I fixed my wrinkled shirt and stood up like a man. If I couldn't reason with him I was going to have to go around him.

"Rox I can't leave my daughter here in the hands of your master. Do you understand?"

"I cannot disobey my master's orders Joe. I thought you understood me as well."

"Okay, okay. I do. What if I can tell you that you can still help me out and obey your master all at once?" I asked. Rox tilted his head sideways like a little puppy.

"How can this be achieved?" Rox asked and already in my mind I had the perfect plan.

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Anabella

Purple lights surrounded my quarters as I sat on my bed. It had a design of purple that I did not understand. Rox, the robot was in front of me and he stared at me with his blue eyes that were made of lights.

"Would you like anything prior to your preparation?" Rox asked. I shook my head as tears streamed down my face. They were unavoidable.

"Why is your face wet?" Rox asked. I sniffled trying and wiped my tears away with the back of my hand.

"Allow me," Rox said and he touched his arm. A purple triangular shaped light appeared. He touched buttons made of light that seemed to create something out of it and then a purple cloth appeared. I gasped amazed.

"How did you do that?" I asked as he handed the cloth to me.

"By integration," he answered as I wiped my tears with it. I could hardly believe what I had seen and yet there was the cloth right there in front of me.

"I don't... I don't know what you mean?" I asked honestly. For a moment, my depression was instantly locked away and replaced with curiosity. A curiosity that wouldn't last long enough to conceal the pain inside of me, but still it needed to be fed.

"Oh, well integration means that we can create matter with the correct patterns of mass, energy and the exact calculations of the property of the elements in its basic atomic structures," he answered.

"You can create matter?" I asked astounded.

"Yes, as long as long as they are non-living organisms. Prince Brok tried to create a living one, but his attempt was condemned by the King and his punishment was to seek love or face death."

"Love? What does love have to do with trying to create living organisms?" I asked. Rox sat down next to me. The edges of his long white robe fell to the floor and he placed his hands on his lap and looked at me. Strangely I felt that his eyes were filled with warmth.