𝙻𝚄𝚅 𝙻𝟶𝟶𝙺𝚂 𝙿𝚁𝟹𝚃𝚃𝚈 𝟶𝙽 𝚄

𝟽.𝚎𝚛𝚛𝟶𝚛.𝟽

Getting back into the tight white dress and tall heels reminded Yeji of her truly robotic lifestyle. She quickly found the revealing clothes uncomfortable and preferred the style that was cool, loose, and casual.

She looked into the mirror of the giant closet room, looking herself up and down. Well, they aren't supposed to feel, so whether the clothing they put her in is comfortable or not isn't supposed to matter. Yeji figured that out, and in order to save herself, she'll have to keep pretending nothing matters but doing what she's commanded to do.

Walking towards the mirror, the heels clacking on the floor, she leaned in and looked into her own eyes. Remembering Jeni's eyes, full of life and emotion. Jeni's eyes moved, her pupils dilated.

But Yeji's didn't. Her eyes were stuck as they were, she could move them to look around of course, but her pupils were forever the same diameter. She couldn't express her desire through her eyes alone. But she can feel it.

Looking even closer, she began to freak herself out. Her skin is so glossy and perfect, not a single imperfection. Like Uncanny Valley but beautiful. Too beautiful.

She suddenly pulled away from the mirror, unable to look at herself any longer. She didn't see any humanity in herself, yet she feels. Now, she's terrified.

Forcing herself to leave and go back to her charging station, her thoughts were scattered. She needed to know why and how she was like this and why it seems like she's the only one.

Entering the dark room, she immediately noticed that her partner was gone from her platform. She stopped in her tracks, looking around the room, trying to see Ryvj1n, but she saw nothing.

"Ryvj1n?" She called, thinking if she noticed anything odd in the hallways, she didn't.

Looking down, she saw the other three figures that glowed through all of the floors. But that meant that Ryvj1n was not down there.

Suddenly, she heard the elevator from outside the door in the hall. She gasped a bit and looked towards the noise, there was a glowing figure floating up to this level, which had to be Ryvj1n.

The redhead sighed in relief and went to the door to meet Ryvj1n in the hallway and question where she went on her own...

But she heard human voices as she approached the door and stopped and gasped in surprise. She ran back to her charging station, questioning just who was with Ryvj1n and what they were doing with her during her charging hours? That must mean they also noticed that Yeji was gone all night too then, right?

"We're going to be out of jobs here pretty soon," Chaeyeon or Tech R said as they entered the room, leading the tall bot to her charging station.

"Don't worry like that, we just have to override it the same way we did for Yeji. Look! Yeji is still here charging. So, it was only Ryujin who went down to the basement. I wonder what she was doing down there anyway..." Bambi or Tech Y, the one who always has pretty bows in her hair and pink on, responded and Chaeyeon was quick to say something back.

"She said she thought it was her charging station, which is exactly what Yeji said a few nights ago when Manager-nim found her down there. They both keep thinking that, but what I don't get is why would Ryujin disconnect herself from her charging port to get to what she thinks is her charging port?

"She probably thought she was at a portable port and her original one was in the basement."

"She probably thought?"

"... Well I mean, glitches are mistakes, they cause things that don't make sense. Let's just focus on getting it fixed in her system before Manager-nim gets here."