[Something routes through then: a thousand small pieces clicking into place as some pressure is released. A trigger pulls or a vent releases. The electrical crackle flickers through the synthetic guts of the android, hums through the plating and sizzles under fingers before the flash consolidates.
Regulates.
Flash. Hold. Flash. Hold. Flash--
The skeletal mass of the android twitches - jerks. The light behind its occular inputs comes online. It's painfully bright without the synthetic gel eyeball over it, the eyelids. A grinding noise whirs up from behind the ribs then that too winds down and evens out.
A long moment of just metallic noise, then it melds into:]
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Regulates.
Flash. Hold. Flash. Hold. Flash--
The skeletal mass of the android twitches - jerks. The light behind its occular inputs comes online. It's painfully bright without the synthetic gel eyeball over it, the eyelids. A grinding noise whirs up from behind the ribs then that too winds down and evens out.
A long moment of just metallic noise, then it melds into:]
Where...am... [click click click] I?