Breakfast at Sylvain's (D2, MM Sly's Room)

[Kristal Serasai]

"I would prefer not to placed on a pedestal," she said lightly, taking a sip of her drink and setting it down. Not wanting to sound unappreciative but it was the truth. "I have a great more I must do."

[Sylvain Torsin]

He chuckled, "Placing you far out of my reach will never be my intention. I merely impressed with you as I always am. I haven't had the opportunity to tell you so recently, so I'm taking the chance while I have it."

[Kristal Serasai]

Looking at him critically her placed her left hand on the edge of the table, resting it there, "Am I capable of doing wrong in your eyes Sylvain?" it was something that had been worrying her a little lately.

[Sylvain Torsin]

He nodded, "I do believe you to be human, and most likely will do wrong. But given the right circumstances you do tend to do right far more often than wrong."

[Kristal Serasai]

The woman opposite him nodded firmly, it was something she needed to hear. With that said she wasn't prepared to leave but had tackled the topics that were important, and more precisely, on her mind.

[Sylvain Torsin]

He smiled as he looked at her, "I do still think we each do better with the other around. It helps us both make up for where we are weak."

[Kristal Serasai]

Kristal looked up, "I am in agreement, Sylvain."

[Sylvain Torsin]

He smiled, "I am glad. Though I suppose there is still a lot that I need to make up for. Which is of course my intention."

[Kristal Serasai]

Kristal was silent on the matter, having nothing to say that sounded right to her.

[Sylvain Torsin]

Sylvain just watched his friend with a concerned look.

"I won't pull your teeth to get your assessment. Just letting you know my resolve has only gotten stronger with time."

[Kristal Serasai]

With a nod she tried to ease his concerns, but she remained silent. Forcing up a weak smile for him.

[Sylvain Torsin]

He offered a weak smile in return. "How do you like the food? Better than Jawa cuisine?"

[Kristal Serasai]

"I have never actually had Jawa cuisine," she said, amused. "So I could not assure you that is true as I have never witnessed it."

[Sylvain Torsin]

He chuckled, "Then sand-cakes or whatever it is they have you eat out there on Tatooine?"

[Kristal Serasai]

"Far better," she said in response, "but then you are competing against some rather unappetizing pre-prepared meals Sylvain. I am not sure that is a victory you want to gloat on," she added with a tease.

[Sylvain Torsin]

"Many small victories amount to great victories." He said with a teasing smile.

"And how are you adjusting to your new appendage? It's the source of dozens of heroic nicknames that are emerging for you in the capital now... but I assume you feel a bit different about it, knowing you."

[Kristal Serasai]

That question brought an unfamiliar expression to Kristal's face. Looking uncertain for a moment before she brought it up further and lay her left arm on the table. Thinking for a second longer before she moved to action saying, "Sylvain, give me your hand."

Meanwhile she removed her left hands glove with her right, revealing the intricate cybernetics that lay hidden beneath.

[Sylvain Torsin]

Sylvain offered his hand freely to Kris.

[Kristal Serasai]

With her revealed cybernetic hand she took his, holding it in the cold metallic embrace. Unfeeling and dead to the touch despite it obeying each and every of her wishes.

Kristal merely looked to him to see if he understood.

[Sylvain Torsin]

He nodded and looked caringly into her eyes, "It's not the quite same is it?"

[Kristal Serasai]

"I can not feel you..." she said, her words holding all the weight they could muster.

[Sylvain Torsin]

He nodded, "Not through this, no."

He reached his other hand up to gently grab her real hand softly.

[Kristal Serasai]

Looking down at his hand holding hers she said softly, the inner thought she allowed him, "Am I becoming a monster?"

[Sylvain Torsin]

He smiled weakly as tears welled up in his eyes a bit, "No Kris. This makes you no less you than before."

He moved his hand around signaling her body, "This is just a vessel. What is you... what is best about you, will always be what is inside here."

He took his finger and tapped her chest above her heart. "As long as you aren't suppressing this, or seeking to modify it to serve the needs of others... you aren't turning into any kind of monster."

[Kristal Serasai]

Kristal held out her other hand, and then looked to the real one. "And if I lose the other? How long until I forget how to feel? How to hold something in my hands and know it is there? How long after I lose that sense do I lose my sense of direction, my humanity?"