Steamwork Kumos
DraconaI was built by Professor Flavius Minchkin in his workshop and brought to Subeta under cover of night as a new years gift for Dracona on the 1/1/11. I was programmed in many things, including play, protection, defence, and logic. I became self aware approximately 15.6 seconds after activation in Professor Minchkin's laboratory. However I have been told I tend to take conversation quite literally. As such Drac has nicknamed me K9 for some reason.
On our first day out, Drac was showing me the area to assist my databanks, and more snow began to fall. The information that the frozen H2O was formed into patterns of crystals did not prepare me for the sheer number, and after I started to blow steam, Drac laughed and told me to stop cataloguing them all.
After that we built a snowman, which taught me much about movement and frozen water. When it was completed, Drac inserted a piece of machinery she had got from Professor Minchkin. Strangely, she murmured below her breath about nanobot experimentation, and hoping this time it might go well, and the snowman started to move!
Dracona explained the professor had sent her out five other times to perform the experiment. She told me of Jules III who worked for about ten minutes until it came in contact with the road and globbed under a car. Jules the fourth dissolved into a pile of steam, and Jules V who had made it all the way home before trying to crawl up the ice dispenser. This time it appeared to have worked again, so Jules is the sixth. It came home with us and has not since even started to melt, despite the heating. He even ignored the ice box! However Jules is also good for communication and incognito surveillance in winter so he guards the outside of the home and communicates with me every 5.24576 seconds.
Dracona says she feels much safer since I came to stay.
Something Dracona introduced me to was BOOKS. I have since enjoyed reading them, even if I can read them a lot faster than humans, it takes more time for me to turn the pages one at a time, as I was taught to respect books, and never tear them with my strength. As a result it can take me a whole twenty minutes to read a book! I know, right? I cannot believe I am so slow. But Dracona encourages me, and the local library knows me on sight. In fact, Alexander and I have had many discussions about books. I know I have a lot more to read, and that is exciting!
OH and the latest news is that Dracona and I made a little terrier dog. She said it was to keep me company, but it isn't sentient, so it's more toy than friend. But it's cute. Thankfully we disengaged the yapping mechanism on the first day. I had not realised small dogs were so noisy! Is it to do with size, do you think? The sound produced is perhaps in inverse proportion to size? Dracona only laughed when I posited such a theory. Ah well. I do love to think.
