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--Birthday Robot--

--Birthday Robot--

by: BE✩

"What's a birthday?" Milima, a robot with a spring green colour scheme for what she wears and looks to be, with a diamond pattern on her outfit and even in her eyes and her hair up but leaves down curves that are diamond like as well, she seemed to be asking a man who was putting stuff away and sighed in some annoyance to it fixing his robotic arm that had a brown colour scheme while he looked like a creature of some kind with a light sky blue coloration to them with a few white spots as well, there body making up mostly of machinery things like there arm, one eye and leg, which he then looked at her studying how Milima seemed to be curious of sorts.

"Milima, for a robot who can know nearly everything surprises me how you don't know what one is after years." The half robotic creature explained, which left Milima with more of a confused look to this knowledge of sorts that has been said to her. "But, Master Rogie, I-" "Don't call me that." "Right. Rogie, I am limited to what I can and can't know, I do not have eternal access to all the knowledge there is or otherwise it can overload my data and I could experience more frequent crashes each day and cannot run correctly." Milima explained which Rogie only sighed suspecting Milima to go on about this sort of thing, he figured as such to say as he turned his focus back to the thing he was putting away before going back to something he was fixing up. "Never mind that one then. Look, it is your birthday, being a day you were created into being alive, basically a special day for you. Make sense?" Rogie then asked which Milima nodded in response to that having to take in that knowledge and saving it to be sure she can remember what a birthday is.

"Why is mine today? on October 20th? Why not any other day?." Milima then asked which Rogie then sighed at that, he seems to be getting annoyed by Milima asking so much which Milima has processed and recognised from other times he has had a look like this, making her go quiet now and not say any more, but waited to see if Rogie will answer. "It's cause you were completed that day and couldn't have any delays so you ended up being completed on the 20th." Rogie explained while he went back to focusing on the machine he was fixing that wasn't working the same it has been, which Milima watched processing the information before it was saved, thinking now for there is much more she wishes to ask but she knows it is annoying him so she has to keep her mouth shut as she learned, otherwise that would be mean to continue to bug on and on then. "I will go see what the rest are doing." Milima spoke which Rogie only gave a nod and a grumbled response of 'stay safe' which Milima has heard and knows to respond with a smile since it's what people do when they hear something nice even when it's quietly said before she left the room.

She began to walk around the house, well more mansion that had the walls be very dark and the carpet was like a faded red going into a brown for how old it was and it would be expensive to try and get red carpet for the entire place, it's often nice to walk around the place despite there being barely anyone living here aside from her, Rogie, and there friends who went out for something, it's a wonder what. For the time being she wondered the halls and thought, birthdays, a special day that's all about you, but there isn't much about her, she is after all just a robot created by the hands of Rogie she believes, or was it another? Her memory data hasn't been working the same for she cannot think back to way when she was made now but just knows that Rogie is her master, she must listen to anything he says after all. She continued on with her walk around the place, heading down to the bed rooms to where her friends rest, she knocked on the first door and waited for a response, nobody. 

She moved to the next, knocked, nobody but the sounds of a rabbit on the other side running away from the door. She moved to the next, knocked, nothing as well. She moved to the next, knocked, nothing but the eerie sounds that usually comes from there. Everyone must be out of their rooms, perhaps either out with one another or wandering around, perhaps their one friend was here since they do not like the public. Milima began to walk around now searching for this friend, they're a few places this friend will go, outside, wandering around or at a spot that their arms won't bother them. Milima began to check around those places, going out to the backyard to check out if they were there, but nothing but the big open field and the statue in the center that's always been there.

She then made her way to the next thing, places they will go if their arms will be too long, checking higher places, spots that are perfect to have space, long hallways and more, but yet so far nothing,  odd. She then began to wander the halls, attempting to try and find them, no luck at all but more halls and more corners to turn at, this must be what you get for living in a mansion to think. There is no sign of them, Milima continued to wonder and check around looking for clues till noticed down the hall part of there friends long flint purple coloured arms, going up to somewhere, Milima studied the direction checking if it will stop or it's route will change or if its the motion they do to bring something, but it appeared it was dragging and continued, so Milima began to follow for where it should lead to there friend and not the end of the arms, that was always said to never be a good idea. She followed for a while, keeping a quick pace so it wont be just an endless walk of never reaching the end, which she wasn't sure how long it will take to reach the end but she will reach it. 

She followed till she was able to see there friend properly now with there long arms and odd doll like features with no mouth, nose and scratched like eyes and being mainly that flint purple colour, she has though never minded it and doesn't understand how it is scary to some people. She went over and spoke up with a "Hello, Slondo." which the being known as Slondo turned to look at Milima then waved with their arm to them, while Milima processed it before she waved back to them. "Have the rest went out?" Milima then asked which Slondo seemed to stare hearing that, taking a moment before they gave a small nod of sorts, which Milima then understood causing silence to be there for a moment, before Slondo did a shape with there arms to make an arrow as if to say to follow them the direction they're headed and which Milima was confused by that but nodded, couldn't hurt to follow with right? 

She began to then follow Slondo who began to lead the way to somewhere, following in silence just doing as told while glanced around at times around the place to have as idea of where one could possibly be going now, she continued to follow and soon Slondo made there way to Milimas door and just stood in front of it and stared waiting for Milima to go over perhaps to open it. Milima studied the door, processing what needs to be done, then turned the knob on the door to open it, opening it to see the room had the lights off, feeling Slondo nudge Milima to go inside, which she did, her eyes glowing in the darkness that stepping further in caused the room to power on to life with the lights coming on with the sparkling green colour that matches her but yet can notice balloons around the floor of the room and all of a sudden yelling that said "HAPPY BIRTHDAY!" causing Milima to be all the more confused to realise it was all of her friends in there wearing what looks like bright colourful cones that are perhaps hats for them and one of them was holding a small cake of some kind that had written 'Happy Birthday' on the front and which the main thing one can see was that everyone was smiling. 

"Oh. This is an unsuspected to see." Milima spoke, surely confused by all of this that is here, but seeing them happy makes one think, when others are happy, one should be happy to, show you are happy that way it won't leave them all sad. Which one Milima did when they all gave a confused look they all smiled again and came over to Milima all talking about how they are happy to have Milima and that although Milima may not understand everything that is okay and which Milima looked at each one of them thinking, well, this must be what friendship is and which she enjoys it, despite being simply just a robot who isn't sure what they were yet made for.

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Milima made by: BE✩
Rogie made by: BE✩
Slondo made by: BE✩

Location made by: BE✩