Me and My big mouth

[Kopaka]

Kopaka began to shake his head. This female's piercing voice was slightly to shrill for the Toa. It grated on his audio receptors like a glitchy feedback loop, but perhaps this was only because he had just extracted himself from yet another mental sojourn into his past. The more he saw of who he had been, and the world he had been a part of, the more he grew to resent this Omniverse. It was apparent that he had been given a distinct purpose, built for a distinct purpose, in the land he knew only as Mata Nui. But what was the point in trying to resist what Destiny had given him? To dwell on the past was to live in perpetual regression. Kopaka looked down at Ururu (or her clone, rather) and let out a loose, synthesized sigh. The Toa honestly didn't remember the question that Ururu had asked him in the first place, but ultimately it didn't matter. He wouldn't have answered it anyway.

To business then.

"Have you completed the business you came here to address?" he asked in a tone that was not entirely free of petulance. Kopaka was anxious to be rid of the female, that much was clear. He had completed his assigned mission to escort her to the Library and assess her risk to the public. Honestly, she seemed too smart to try and cause an upset on the most policed Tier of Coruscant. At this point, there were more important things to attend to than this glorified busywork.

[Ururu Kyuuei]

Shi gave Kopaku the look of someone who was been expecting more from life. Especially from the mechaloid who had beaten her creator in a flat minute. Seriously there had to be more to the whole situation, but he was simply letting her- or rather who he believed to be Ururu off like that? What was Shi, an answering service? Her awakening to life had been with the anticipation of adventure, of interrogations, torture, good cop bad cop and bad acting classes being put on display so she could quip that they should get their money back. She had been emotionally invested in dropping that line.

Instead it was this?

This was pathetic.

“I’ve been gallivanting around for a grand total of an hour. I still-“ She paused accentuating her last word with a glare, “Still don’t know where the fuck the Senate Library is-.” Her voice trailed off as she nearly choked on her tongue in pausing. Blood drained from her face as realization hit her and nearly caused a pedestrian accident outside as her creator and sister came to a sudden halt. Likely earning them more than a few choice words about idiocy.

“Please tell me this isn’t the library?” Shi wilted, that little detail she probably should have let filter a little bit more slowly across the Network rather than feeding into Ururu and Hikaru’s heads in a sudden burst. Killing her mistress in a bout of simple mindedness was not what she wanted on her first day on the job.

The Tao simply nodded an affirmative as if that much was obvious.

Her gaze swept around and confirmed… well nothing. It didn’t look anything like a library. Where were the books? The scrolls? Ancient tomes of vast knowledge? Something. Everything from her creator’s experience that comprised a place of learning and knowledge did not match here. While it certainly had a homey look while remaining technologically gleaming… It didn’t quite belong. Not quite the futuristic science fiction novel or something out of the deepest fantasy. It just- was.

And just ‘was’, failed to impress in a most profound sense of frustration.

Maybe it was her overall lack of depth in the imprinting process that made up Ururu’s life and that informed Shikaze of her opinion now, but this place was kind of a disappointment. Everything she had read had said otherwise and yet- here it was. Everything was digital. There was no wonder here, just bureaucratic symmetry.

It made sense but. Again something more was needed.

Sighing, “Yes thank you. You can go. I’ll probably be here for several days.”

Which was more truth than Ururu had ever given up since coming to the Omniverse; already she could feel her sibling and creator hauling ass back and contemplating the awakening of all of Shi’s brothers and sisters. They would scour this place of any detail knowledge of every byte of information that was even close to pertinent to well anything.

It still didn’t change the fact this place was disappointing in appearance. Plain, not nearly as much grandeur as what should have been for the largest library anyone in her family had ever been too.

Knowing that she had a lot more to do to get this day going and to make up for potentially killing Ururu. Shi moved off without any further word. Half of her was numb the other half broiling at a number of indignations that had she just been subjected too out of ignorance. Kaji always had said that life is full of disappointments, but had also said that those disappoints were what highlighted the finer things in life as well.

Just her luck that her first… thing in life was disappointing.

“Onwards an upwards,” she muttered to herself.

[Kopaka]

With a silent nod, Kopaka turned on his heel and stormed towards the exit. He had to report back to Lieutenant Brath that he was back from the Colosseum and ready to resume his work for the EPD, though Kopaka had to admit he was somewhat loathe to show his mask around the human that had given him so much respect. It was likely that he would never completely live that forfeit down. It didn't matter, however. All Kopaka had to do was retreat even farther into his emotions.

Within under a minute, Kopaka was back on a requisitioned EPD swoop bike, soaring back towards the dispatch center through the flickering Coruscant traffic...