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Bronze, Silver, Goldie, and Chase were all just chilling in the tower, hanging out. Deacon suddenly slams the hatch open and then slams a very thick graphic novel onto the floor and climbs up after it.
Deacon: Chase!
Chase: Yes?
Deacon: So I've been reading this graphic novel called Watchmen and I love it so much! I know it's not my usual horsey-romance novels, but it's so cool! It's really introduced me to this whole new medium and it's about the Cold War but if we had superheroes and stuff!
He continues his autistic ramblings as Chase doesn't even pretend to care. He continues talking for about thirty minutes.
Deacon: …and Rorschach is my favorite character, he's my newest and poorest little meow meow.
Silver: If I may ask, what is a "poor little meow meow?"
Deacon: Oh, well it's a character that's so miserable beyond help but you just love them so much and they're so cute so they're just your poor little meow meow.
Silver: I see, but-
Suddenly her eyes turn windows-blue-screen blue, and she freezes completely with the windows stop noise.
Deacon: What the fuck?
Chase: Yeah, what the fuck?
Goldie: Oh, it is quite simple! Ex libris had sent out a-
He makes the same noise, his eyes turn blue and he stops as well.
Chase: Bronze!?
Bronze: Oh don't worry, it's just-
The same happens to him.
Chase and deacon just look at each other and start screaming.
*****
Nox is sitting boredly near Violet as she keeps doing and redoing her make up.
Nox: You always go with the sunset purple to azure white cut crease, every single time! Why do you always do all of this fussing about whenever you put your make-up on?
Violet: Well you see dear-
Her eyes turn blue as she freezes, and the same noise plays from her.
Nox: What? Violet? Violet? Are you ok? Violet? Violet?! No, no, no, what the fuck is happening-
He had started backing up from his frozen sister, very scaredly, until finally the same happened to him, freezing him in his scared position.
*****
Deacon: There's a progress bar moving across their eyes.
Chase: What?
Deacon: There's a progress bar, and it says they're all 3% of the way there.
They sit there and watch the progress bar until it finishes loading. Then all of the keys, including the ones at the library, close their eyes slowly making the windows power down noise, and then open them again making the windows start-up sound.
Silver: I'm terribly sorry, what were we talking about?
Chase: What the fuck was that?
Bronze: It was a software update.
Deacons eyes grow wide.
Deacon: THE KEYS RUN ON WINDOWS!?