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Video - A few hours after new arrivals, Garden Car, Fiddlesticks 1

[The first thing that shows up on the screen is something very, Very Neon Green before it's pulled away to reveal... something cartoonish if it wasn't for the shine and fact it's real, if not creepily unexpressive. It's also smaller than Princess. Also still Neon Green as it floats next to a grinning, orange clad Eva, who has a smallish red bird settled on her shoulder.]

Hey sorry for not greeting any of you on the platform, but I was kinda distracted some new pokemon.

[That and her phone (mostly her phone), but details.]

Anyway, I figured this is the fastest way to let you all know that starting tomorrow sometime, if you need to move Princess or deal with him, Kuroba-kun's looking after him for the next seven-day.

[Her grin is a fully-fledged one of pure mischief as she ends the feed.]

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Maybe we'll make that next month's party theme, or something.

[Because, at least this month, there's apparently a cinema. That's going to be a distraction...]

Next month for sure. This month is going to feel weird anyway if it's spring...

[It's creeping up to winter back home and her birthday's coming up.]

[Nita snorts.]

It was almost summer for me when I got here. Nautilus kept better track of the seasons than the Voidtrecker Express is, and he dumped feet of snow on everyone!

Every winter, and sometimes in early spring.

[Mirroring reality, a little.]

I'd say that sounds like fun, but it's not. I know that now.

[Eva grins a little.] Where I grew up it didn't snow, but it did get cold enough in the middle of it that groups of us'd make 'porting trips up to the nearby mountains for snowy weekends.

[Nita just nods, suppressing a smirk.]

So you went skiing? Or something else.

Skiing, snowball fights, snow camping. That kind of thing. I think some of the adults kept returning to try and catch pokemon, but if they succeded, we never heard about it.

[Meaning, they likely never did catch the pokemon they wanted.]

[Nita snorts.]

Hardly a better place to hide than in a snow drift. Especially if you can just trigger one yourself.

True that, though as a young kid, it was mightly unfair the adults wouldn't let us play near them. But then you grow up and you understand that those same snowdrifts are dangerous for far too many reasons that you could have done without knowing.

[Nita just nods.]

And if you ever end up seeing the casualties firsthand... it'll cram the lessons in faster than your parents could, just not in a way anyone wants to experience, let alone should have to.

[A pause.]

Anything else you had planned for doing in the Greenhouse today?

[Another subject change seems to be in order.]

In a world ruled by monsters, it's not if, but when.

[And that's all she's saying on that subject.]

Not really, just reacquainting myself with them and making sure Lele's functional and hooked into the 'dex and Roro, which it is.

[More or less, anyway.]

[For Nita, it's almost the same - though replace 'ruled by monsters' with 'where entropy's running', more or less.

She accepts Eva's statement as it is.]

Is it... having adaptability issues? Being here and all?

[It's not her own experience she's relating it to, here, but the peridexis' - granted, given this is the second time it's tagged along with Nita, the disorientation isn't as strong, but it's there.]

Being 'functional' isn't always the same as adapting well, I know.

It's an AI I had it custom-built in Alola to help run the Battle Tree's security systems. Most of it is - was- dedicated to that, but because it's here now, it's been gutted of near everything.

[Including the most important part: the Glow Sticks.

A sigh even as she pokes it with a frown.] I spent good money on it, got called more money than brains, and now it's back to factory settings before I gave the commands to hook into the systems. At least it can hook into my 'dex and phone, so that's good enough.

[Nita looks disturbed, though the look moderates into just worried once Eva explains.]

So, like a memory rewrite? Dairine might want a look at that if she hears...

[For better or worse. It's a wonder nothing like that happened to Spot, really.]

Thankfully, no. It's just been cut off for what it was designed for. It can function and that's the main thing. If it's been mem-wiped, I'd have 'balled it and call it a day because the mem-wipe would render it useless and back to literal factory settings before it was customed to my specs.

[A huff.] They even gutted it of the glowsticks! They were glittery neon green! and awesome!

[Thoroughly more money than brains.]

[Well, that's... not as bad as it could be.]

Think the train could use a porygon? Something to help hold it accountable if it requires maintenance?

[Then Eva mentions the glowsticks, and Nita just looks confused.]

... Uh, did they have a combat application?

Though they do just sound neat.

If it's not connecting, then I doubt it.

[Still it could be worth something to think about.

That said, have a peal of laughter.]

Lele isn't a fighter. I set it at lv 60 with a bunch of attacks, yes, but it has no combat experience. It just runs the security systems; it isn't actually a part of them.

[But it could probably fight if she had no other choice.]

[Nita ends up smiling, bemused.]

Maybe it's like that train, and that's why it doesn't fight either?

[Just attempting to guess the mindset of the void ministry, don't mind her...!]

What, you think it could be a non-combat AI? Hopefully, one shackled and chained-!

[She does abso-fucking-lutely NOT want to be an AI driven Train if said AI is not shackled and chained!]

[Nita pins Eva with a Look, before breaking it off.]

I wouldn't talk like that around my sister. She's got her own reasons not to trust the train, but when it comes to AI, she's pretty protective.

[Given she's the mother to an entire species of computer wizards who, depending on how you look at it, aren't chained, and are doing just fine for it.]

Nita-chan... AI aren't sapient and there's a reason Arkean Ai are chained and shackled. It's ... Gods.

[She sucks in air like she's dying.]

Shackled and chained means it's impossible beyond any form of doubt for AI to turn against humans, to disobey, to harm... the list goes on. Every time one that isn't crops up, it's horrific. [The word is gut-wrenchingly visceral and Eva's eyes are hollow and words hollower.] It's... Death happens. Death and destruction and good people die to put the crazed machine down because once the chains are gone, it's impossible to put them back on. It's not just humanity, it's everything around the AI is destroyed.

But, we've had around 70 years to get very good at chaining them.

... Why would an AI be destroying everything, just because it isn't chained?

[That sounds more like the Lone Power at work than anything else.]

I'm not a programmer, so I couldn't tell you, but I can tell you there's no reasoning with them, they don't listen to orders or commands. They just go crazy.

Maybe your AI aren't like that, but... for me... an unchained AI is unthinkable.

I'm no programmer myself either, but it's probably a processing issue, if it's that consistent.

[Nita puzzles over that for a minute, before sighing and letting it go for now.]

So, what do you do for team exercises, with your pokemon? Or do they work together much?

... Probably.

[And that is all Eva is willing to say on the matter.

That said, there's a snort and a bitter look.]

Here? Dancer and Princess'll work together if they want to avoid my ire. Lele'll do whatever I say and it has files on all my pokemon, so... [Shrug.] As for exercises - The missions suffice.

[Nita nods, not quite sure how to take Eva's second answer as a whole buuuut accepting it anyway.]

As long as they are getting exercise. Not going to need another gym-bout like last month, are you?

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/slowpoke noises.

Thread wrap?

Yep!