SUDDEN MARRIAGE MEME.

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[ex_engineers208]

[ pointedly, too, but back: ] I'm capable a' decidin' when I'm done.

I'm fine. [ his voice falls into reassurance. ] I'd appreciate if you'd lend me a hand, but I don't gotta stop for now.

[ as he's walking to examine a large-scale engine a few yards away: numbers, a tone, as a request. an option to follow, to help with creating the chassis of the machine. ]

[heartlessglitch]

[ there's a moment of stubbornness, where she lingers at a distance with something critical in her expression-- but it passes, and she approaches, easily falling into a familiar rhythm of work. it's unnecessary to speak, so she doesn't for a while, communicating in strings of mental binary when she needs to.

the silence is comfortable to her. she's almost reluctant to speak out loud and break it. ]

You must take better care of yourself, Madison.

[ex_engineers208]

[ it's easy to miss something being communicated when he's focused on another medium entirely; it takes him a second before he realizes that she's spoken and what she's spoken. verbal communication is really nothing like its mechanical counterpart.

craning his head over his shoulder, he gives a chuckle (a little hard, coming from somewhere where emotional expression is very limited). ]

I'm alive, ain't I? Y'shouldn't hafta worry about me.

[heartlessglitch]

Concern is a normal symptom of emotional attachment.

[ the way she says it comes out clinical though, matter-of-fact, and she hasn't stopped working as she talks. her movements are simultaneously automatic and precise. ]

Even I require regular maintenance, Madison.