The New World

chapter 3-Getting used to this world.

Harply and her yellow robotic friend leave Starshot's house slowly as they walk away from his house slowly and calmly walking back to the wall they where at earlier with the moss, flowers, and mushrooms growing on it, the sky was getting dark the many stars starting to show up around the half moon in the black inky sky, Harply looks up and admired the beauty of the stars and Garnold looks down at her, the darkness over his body leaving his face glowing as he glanced up at the sky putting his hand on Harply's shoulder trying to make her feel not alone in this darkness, Harply shifts her gaze to Garnold slightly scared of the dark Garnold being her beacon of comfort as she pulls him in and hugs him tightly her little form slightly shivering as the temperature follows the sun. Garnold feels her cold body and heats up his own the padding over his hands and lower paws heat up as his metal warms to a comfortable temperature as he lightly picks her up from her back and under her knees in a bridal style so she could sleep while he walks them home, which is just like Harply's actual home. Garnold walks inside and shuts the door behind himself, stepping up the stairs with Harply in his arms as he opens the door to her room with a free hand, and sets her down on her bed tucking her in with her cotton star blanket rubbing her head to comfort her more. She had already fell asleep when Garnold had picked her up, her head gently leaned back against her fluffy pillow her head sinking into it, her arms pull out from under her blanket and rest on her her stomach, Garnold gets up from sitting on the edge of her bed and walks out of the room to his charging station to the left of the hall opposite to Harply's room. He sits down a a pressure plate that plugs a cord into the back of his neck to give him power, he powers himself down pressing a button under his visor a supporting bar sliding under his back so he wouldn't fall as he rests his battery. Harply stirs awake and sits up rubbing her head speaking to herself "my head hurts... where's Garnie?", she unwraps herself from her blanket and stands up walking over and turning the nob to her door And gently pushing it open the doors hinges creaking when the door is pushed open. She steps out her slippers still on her feet, she slides them off leaving them in her room walking with just her socks on her feet as she opens the door on the opposite side of the hall to her room, she doesn't remember it being there so she assumes it's where Garnold was, she knocks on the door and silence follows the knock, she turns the nob to the door and opens it seeing Garnold who is powered down in his charging station, she runs on her tip toes to her room and grabs her blanket felling scared to sleep without her parents next door. She quickly ran back to Garnold's  room and tossed the blanket over his back and wrapped herself with what she had left of the blanket, she leans against Garnold's warm body falling asleep with a headache that is slowly going away as she slept.

As the sun rises over the curtain-less window is shines on Garnold's visor powering his system back on as his projected face powered back on, he feels something on his side and looks over seeing Harply resting against him, he doesn't want to wake her so he unplugged his charger from the back of his neck and put his padded hand on her back and waited for her to wake, as he did Harply stirs her eyes tiredly opening and looking at Garnold before smiling and hugging him tightly once again, he let her his hand already resting on her back. He spoke "Marble do you want to explore more after you get proper  nutrien-" he is cut off by Harply covering his lower visor and speaking "let's eat first okay? Don't use the smart terms on me Garnie.", his eyes look away as he gently pushes her hand down off his lower visor speaking in a soft tone the stars in his eyes slightly shine with the sun hitting his visor "ill make some eggs if thats what you want" Harply nods her head standing up and letting the blanket fall on the floor helping Garnold up "eggs sound good, what do you like to eat Garnie?" Garnold looked at her a moment before speaking up with a questioning tone in his voice "I- can't eat, I only have a projected mouth unfortunately." Harply listens and frowns "So you don't ever eat?" A sad tone creeping into her every word she spoke. Garnold heard her tone and sighed softly not wanting her to cry so he cupped her face with his hand and spoke gently "I don't have to eat marble, my energy is power from my charger." Harply puts her hand on his on her face a tear disappearing from the corner of her eye when he says he doesn't require food to live, she sniffs and looks up at him speaking with a voice that sounded like a whisper "I'm glad you don't need it, I would have cried if you got hurt because you couldn't eat.." her voice full of a lovely innocence as words left her mouth. Garnold looked at her  with a projected smile "lets get you something to eat marble" he said in a low tone rubbing her head with his palm. He looks at her a moment noticing she had been venturing entire time with night clothing on, he spoke "you need some other clothes? I imagine it's uncomfortable to walk around in, night clothes" she looks down at herself seeing her flower pants and her short nightgown with cats on it, she nods "Yea.. I barely realized I had them on until now" she spoke in a soft embarrassed tone when she said that, Garnold stands and helps her up "I have a sweater and some shorts for you if you would like them." Harply immediately nods excited as Garnold guided her to the closet and rech in grabbing the clothes, handing her a yellow brown and dark yellow sweater with a pattern that almost matched him and a comfy looking pair of shorts, he spoke "Ill leave, come downstairs for breakfast when you're done getting dressed okay marble?" After saying that he leaves the room shutting the door behind him and walking downstairs to start making her breakfast.

Harply snugly fit into the clothing it was perfect for her, she pushed the messy hair out of her own face and pushes the door to walk outside of the room, shutting it behind her. Walking down the stairs the aroma of eggs enters her nose when she walked into the kitchen seeing Garnold making the eggs on the skillet over the oven top. "That smells good" she said with a smile on her face walking over in her comfortable clothing, Garnold turned his head to look at her and a smile projected on his face before he spoke with a joyful tone "you look comfortable! I was hoping you would fit in them!" Harply puts her hands together happily holding back the urge to hug Garnold, just not wanting him to spill the eggs on himself and hurt his system. Harply pulls a chair out from under the table and sits down her back against the chairs back. Suddenly, she speaks up "I like this world.." with a low soft tone, Garnold looks over at her with a warm smile turning off the burner of the stove putting her cooked eggs on a plate and sliding it to her across the small table which she catches, Garnold gives her a pat on the head with the palm of his warm hand speaking softly "I'm glad you like it here, we like having you here." Garnold pulls out a chair for himself from under the table and sits down.