Page 10 (1/1)

"Feel better now?" Aldrec asked as he watched Mericlou finish her cider

"Oh yes, very h and put down the now-elass It was noticeably smaller than Aldrec's, due to androids' smaller food requirements It surprised her that the elf had not known of this; in fact his ignorance of it a o had aliven the ser needs of her fusion cells to Aldrec, and then watched as he turned an aized

"You know," Mericlou said, daintily fingering the edge of the crystal glass, "I think that as good as this stuff is for the power cells; it ue with you there," Aldrec said Asandroids was ad near-altercation with the waiter was proof enough of this In light of the tree of history, only recently recognized as a race in their own right And since Lusea housed fewer androids than in any of the Republic's larger cities, like Nibra, or Sakar, he never had any real reason to discover uessed that they could wax philosophical, like Mericlou had just done in her own s many of her conversational nuances, he found her very surprising, and as char as she was beautiful

"I told you that it'd help your bad day go away" Aldrec took a big draft froone, and he was at last able to enjoy the scenery: thethe shores of the river, the ays lined with rows of trees and hedges in full e meadow on the opposite shore in the distance, and a pretty face just across from him

"Aldrec?"

"Hmm?" He replied absently

"Why didn't you answerthat he had just been daydrea "I was in my own little world for a moment"

"Well, I need a break from this world myself," Mericlou quipped She flashed him a wry smile "Can you take le, the odd resonance of her artificial voice turning the sound almost musical