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"They're going to get food," Aldrec said "Good hunting, friends"
"Now I really envy you," Mericlou said with a laugh
"Why?" Aldrec asked
"Because now that I've seen that you can talk to plants and anih "If I could do just that, I'd be the happiest android in the world!"
"You ht now?" Aldrec said He leaned over to kiss her on the cheek, and then stood up
"Oh, I' hold of his hand "I do feel like the happiest android in the world right now! It was just a poor choice of words; that's all"
Aldrec slad that I've ?" She saw that he was headed back towards Vinta
"To a place where dreams come true," he said "I should be back in a o of his arrove of trees, all sounds of his footsteps ceasing as he went out of sight, leaving her alone with her thoughts
In all her short twenty-six years since she was first activated, she never would have even dreamed -had she even known she could- that she would have fallen so heavily in love, and that it would have been with an elf … no, a High elf, of all the beings on this world She had thought too lowly of humans, after years of mistreatment and discriiven elvesties with humans, let alone androids Unlike her hopelessly romantic sister Noroa, or lusty Alaema, she had been far matic and focused on the present, rather than the future With the exception of her affinity for the natural world, she had always been a classic textbook android In the way of romance, she only hoped to soood hu the line, ould be tolerant of android rights, and would treat her nicely enough to warrant her interest Or perhaps even another android would have caught her eye, but that was even more unlikely, as the ones she kneere too obsessed with the artificial, and behavedto be of much fascination to her And feht to one, to say nothing of the fact that they were all of a now-obsolete model, whose demand plummeted since the end of the sterility crisis The tolerance levels of humans were tested to their li the crisis, and so rateful to cease their production after it was dealt with It was too bad, since Alerians were still the more mentally sophisticated of most android models, perhaps with the exception of Kespar ic as they were, no Kespar ht of these facts, she was fully prepared to resign herself to a life alone