So, Ava saw the buildings and decided to explore the vastness of the city. She decided to flex her legs and arms to walk around the town. As she walked to the city, there was a little bit of feeling of ease and solemnness. There was something about the towers that was cool, it's huge and has that metallic specular sheen-ness whenever she looks up, and her perception has curved
She feels like a small ant the moment she looks up at the towers, it's like when you are in one of those Orthodox churches with liturgy combined with motifs and painting, but in here she seems like a mere dread, an insignificant human in a world of superior architecture that feels like a monolith
The megastructure above her view and everything around her feels like an amiss, who cares if there is grass? You still feel like you are in a dystopian omega world, where elites and materialism are most active
Ava then halts herself from looking up before looking straight at the building, as she enters the building to go shopping. Inside unveils a lot of holographic screens and advertisements with civilians, bored, empty, lifeless people
Ava continued to walk. Inside the mall, the people were not dense; their count was moderate; People just walked around the building. Ava decided to go to a store to buy some spare parts
The store had an advertisement, "Purchase spare electronic parts store" tempting Ava to enter the store. The cashier saw Ava enter the store
The looks like someone who is wearing a visor with glowing red colors, it's like binoculars of sorts that's glued to his eye cover, it's like a face cover with goggles glowing red with a worker's black cap.
The cashier's hospitality shows, "Welcome to the store, what should I get you?"
Ava responded, "Some electronic parts and compiler designs."
The cashier said, "Gotcha." The cashier started tapping on manual controls on the monitor that popped out of his cashier counter table, "Compiler designs incoming ready with API and some electronic spare parts."
"Circuitry, Digital multimeter, Precision Plasma generator, and some motors"
The cashier looked back where the robot arms had delivered the aforementioned through the slider from behind opened and the cashier brought the parts from the inside to Ava
When Ava paid with her saved money, it was heavy, but it robbed her of any money, and upon transactions, she started to carry the plastic bags of her purchased goods, leaving her penniless in terms of credits.
Where Ava resumed her walk around the mall, the noise was very quiet - it felt lonely, but at the same time, it felt clean - there were couples and families, only the couples were more energized, the rest were very quiet
Ava then starts walking around the place, she looks at others, and goes - suddenly a lost child can be seen from a distance
The child was spotted being desperate, asking, "Mama, papa. Where are you?" He was holding his hands together as if he were trying to make a prayer.
Ava watched the lost boy from a distance, weeping. The girl made contact. She looked at the boy with intellectual detachment, "You appear to be lost?"
The boy looked at the girl and was mesmerized, but still clinging to desperation, 'I can't find my parents, miss. Could you help me find them?'
The girl nodded, 'Sure' where she began helping the boy around, she offered her hand and let the boy hold it. Ava uses her brain and eyes to look for their parents.
Ava asked the boy the following, 'What do they look like?'
And so the child described his parents' appearance, and Ava listened. She was silent and robotic, and so Ava grabbed the child, holding the boy's hand
Where they ventured on behalf of this lost boy to find the lost boy's parents, in this place, she was quiet, very solemn, sure she was beautiful to the boy, but not in a striking way
Ava continues to search for the boy's lost parents, even using an organic software in Ava's mind to match people's faces based on the given description
Realizing the futility, he then asked random people if they were the parents of this lost child. She calculated that most gave a non-satisfactory answer, 'No,' with some of their heads waving at Ava's question without a sense of empathy or responsibility - droids
Ava nods and continues searching while holding the child's hand. Soon, time has passed and disappointment begins to form on her face. The child lifted his eyes and looked at the girl's face.
She looked down at him with a modicum of hope before looking straight. She is, in fact, holding her hand
Ava silently assures him, "Don't worry. You must not fret, we will find your parents" with a detached voice
"One way or another" she finalizes her declaration with an air of detachment
The child nodded, they started walking around, while Ava said nothing, but with a layer of silence, Ava kept searching with the boy until finally, two people found them. The boy recognized the two people when he detached his hand from the beautiful girl's hand
One is a lady and a male; the boy started speeding himself up to them, as the boy's face is overwhelmed with joy.
The girl followed, approaching the boy's parents, having watched the boy ran to the parents while being reticent, the mother of the child walked up to her with focused eyes and asked with recognition
"You're Ava, aren't you…" with a flicker of curiosity and fear in her eyes
"I remember when you were part of the secret breeding program. Your dad did something to you during your infancy in the womb", she commented.
The mother waved her head and dismissed herself, "Never mind. It doesn't matter, the mother grabs the child softly and tells him, 'Come on, let's go now"
Ava was confused about the initials she received from her mother. She was put off by the mother's initial greetings, turning her even more curious; maybe she knows a deeper secret that Ava doesn't know after all, since neither Ava recalls being traumatized nor abused in her childhood, except feeling her life was artificial.
Either way, Ava felt refreshed, helping the boy find his parents and check if she is still carrying the bag she bought from the store, to which, to her relief she is still holding the plastic bag
She slowly begins mobilizng herself towards the exit of the mall, so she could taste the liquid of hydration.
Before deciding to plan her steps back to home, rather robotically.
Ava stopped herself and looked back, asking herself, "Does she know something about me?" with curiosity in her eyes
She was lost in thought before deciding to proceed to the exit, holding a plastic bag in her hand.