lastonetodie: (and then they are gone)
The Custodian ([personal profile] lastonetodie) wrote in [community profile] etrayalogs 2025-01-24 02:07 pm (UTC)

[ A noticeable pause. ]
...There is no other like me.

[ Despite his insistence that he does not feel emotions as organic creatures do, the never-ceasing measure of his tone...wavers, a little.

Then, it returns. Pleasant and smooth as always.
]

In order to take care of N'Erud, I am required to track and accomplish millions of tasks and calculations. I am a deeply complex machine - orders of magnitude more complex than anything the Drzyr felt the need to create - but there need only be one of me.

[ Is it possible for a machine to feel loneliness? The Drzyr would hold this to not be the case.

(He has been alone for a long time.)
]

I have never met my predecessor...but in a sense, yes. They did not have the parts to spare, so naturally, I am another iteration of what came before.

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