Sunshine had been unable to sleep ever since she got the construction robot. She wanted to show it to the children, but they had been busy, and she decided not to distract them.
So, she decided to spend the rest of her time working. She was working on making armor that was strong enough to survive the claw marks of a mutated or mutant beast.
At the same time, she was working on putting together the parts of the artificial sun which the system had acquired for her. The clink of metal echoed in the workshop as Sunshine twisted the head of the screw tighter into the small steel frame.
Her hands smelled of iron and oil, a scent that she had long become familiar with. Sparks hissed briefly from the welding rod in her hand and smoke traveled up.
The damaged fragments of the artificial sun lay spread across the bench like the broken parts of a very large old bulb. She exhaled sharply through her nose, already imagining the hours she would take straightening the pieces.
