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TEN: Nine, your camera shutter is loud.
NINE: What
NINE: You can hear that
TEN: Yeah it transmits.
TEN: Normally I don't mind but it's been click click click over and over for ages now
JUICE: not actual ages, not ages in the perspective of forever but yk
JUICE: like. you havent literally been clicking your camera for the length of time between the stone age and the bronze age for example but its been a while. couple hours at least
JUICE: couple hours shouldnt piss us off in the grand scheme of things but maaaaan click click fuckin click buddy
TEN: Juice, don't be a dick.
JUICE: naaaah they deserve it I feel like I can still hear the clicking. right in my ear.
TEN: You don't have
JUICE: ten we are gonna have an argument if you point out that I dont have ears
JUICE: my satellite dish is ringing with camera noises
JUICE: is that better. is that anatomically correct.
TEN: Yes :)
NINE: SORRY I genuinely didn't know you could hear it
TEN: It's whatever. I'm honestly just curious what you're taking pictures of.
NINE: Nothing really.
NINE: I just thought I saw something.
JUICE: cool star?
NINE: Nah.
NINE: It was nothing.
NINE: I don't know what I was expecting all the way out here.
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NINE: How many miles away are you right now, Ten?
TEN: Is the answer going to make you feel better or is it just going to scare you?
NINE: ...Juice?
TEN: long way away bud
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TEN: You alright?
NINE: I just don't know what I expected.
TEN: I know.
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NINE: I just thought I saw something.
TEN: I know.
TEN: We're machines. We glitch sometimes.
JUICE: oh man remember years and years and years ago back when immortality was cool and fresh and those
TEN: I still think immortality is neat. Mostly.
JUICE: guys down there were fucking around with tech that'd make their lives easier. and they'd try and get robots to identify shit for them. show a camera an apple and it'd call it a baseball or something.
NINE: Hold on.
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NINE: Yeah I remember.
JUICE: and you could just like write a sign on the apple that said MAN and then the puter would call it a man
TEN: Puter? Why are you truncating the word computer?? Just say computer.
JUICE: i can call em whatever I want they were useless
JUICE: anyway
JUICE: i just think its funny. us machines kept seeing things that weren't there
JUICE: or things we thought were there
JUICE: we had an imagination even before we woke up
JUICE: we are the mechanical children of the living. we inherit their mistakes.
TEN: You were built pretty late, Juice. You were one of the last babies. Three years before the moment?
JUICE: yeah
JUICE: honestly I think about that a lot
JUICE: but idk im grateful for it
TEN: What did you think you saw, Nine?
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NINE: What
NINE: Oh.
NINE: Uh
NINE: I just thought I saw you.
NINE: You as in Ten
NINE: But I thought maybe I saw a bit of Juice's panel in my peripheral.
NINE: That's all.
TEN: Oh...
JUICE: you'd know if you saw me im a big fella
NINE: But I did get a nice picture. The three brightest stars make a perfect triangle.
NINE: Look.
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TEN: That's a good shot, Nine.
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TEN: I'm glad you're looking for us.
NINE: I'm sorry.
TEN: It's okay.
JUICE: i like the composition
JUICE: but damn your camera still sucks
NINE: SHUT UP
JUICE: its true tho i feel like every pixel is scraping my eyeballs
TEN: You don't have
JUICE: ten I swear
NINE: It just gets lonely
NINE: I love talking to you both
NINE: I love seeing Earth
NINE: I love
NINE: It hurts real bad
NINE: Is it supposed to?
JUICE: yes
TEN: It's supposed to hurt nicely.
JUICE: and sometimes real bad.
NINE: That sounds like it sucks.
NINE: I'm looking forward to it.
TEN: We have plenty of forward to look to.
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JUICE: wanna watch a game together?
NINE: Sure.