Jim nodded and led the way down to the old parts of the factory on the ground floor, to roughly the place where Anni had first called and introduced him to Somi.
He called for them both, "SOMI? ANNI? ANNI?"
He looked around and shrugged to Kix. "It seems like they're not here unless they've met here and moved away or something, though they might have gone out to the stockyards, or... somewhere else?"
He looked rather puzzled. He had expected to find Anni down here; coming to see Somi seemed to be the only explanation to her rushing off like that, though it still didn't really make sense. Was she feeling unwell? And if she was, where would she go if not the R+R? Certainly not to the vykkers anyway.
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"Oh, nothing, just being horrible, so I decided to come out here to get away from them for a bit," She answered breezily. She wanted to get the attention off of herself before she had to expand the lie further so she asked, "I haven't seen you around here before. Are you looking for a job, or have you just got one or something?" A question leapt into her head and into her mouth before she could stop it, "What are you doing out here?"
Stupid, stupid! She wanted to get attention off of the fact that they were outside before this mudokon started asking more about it!
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