Mother 1003

Heading down to the second floor, passing by the Segundo dorms, where Segundos stood glaring or and walked by them briskly, on an adjacent hall, a handful of children from ages 5 to 15 sat or stood lounging around. Many more trickled in with or without a parent. "Morning 459" called a chirpy voice from their backs. "Morning 458"responded Honey to a short slender man holding the hand of a little boy with chubby cheeks and watery eyes. "No wonder your son is on the verge of tears. How can you take care of him when you don't take care of yourself," Honey commented running her hands through his messy auburn hair. The man looked at her squinting his light brown fox like eyes. "Hmph! Who do you think Nol is! I am the greatest field hand!," Nol harrumphed running a hand through his own hair and buttoning up his collar. Noncommittally, Honey remarked "Sure, sure" as she ran her hands through the little boy's equally auburn hair seeing his watery doe eyes. "Mommy?" Little Bee probed and tugged at her sleeves. She chuckled running her hands through Little Bee's curls and pecking him on his forehead. She turned to the little boy at Nol's side, "Don't be scared. My Little Bee will be with you". "Its Little Bee who needs my Vail" Nol interrupted looking down. Pinching Little Bee's cheek, Nol exclaimed "My! He's too cute!". "You should have introduced us earlier," he said smacking Honey's arm. Honey said shrugging, "Well, I forgot with the moving, the registering, and enjoying my new company". Nodding, Nol comments "You should get a bigger unit or don't you want another Little Bee?". "Maybe, but you should think about finding a mate instead of nosing" responds Honey noncommittally. "Who are you to talk? I have lines of potential mates lining up" he exclaims. "They don't want a mate in the fields," Honey hit where it hurt. Nol sniffles,"It's the best pay though."

Honey waves him away, "Oh, Little Bee, this is Room 458's little one, our neighbor across from us", Honey pushes Little Bee to Vail. "Go on Vail, greet 459". Vail hesitantly looks up. Little Bee greets him, "We are from Room 459." Honey and Nol continue to chat while Little Bee attempts to make Vail open up. At the front on a podium, a door opens and two pistons pumping sound. "Morning morning block c of sector 8," a mechanical smooth voice echoes throughout the hall. The hall greets back, "Morning Morning mother!". "Mother 1003 has legs!" Vails exclaims. Nol agrees, "Ooh, this is the first time I'm seeing a more humanoid model, but the legs are so pudgy!"He chuckles. "Robotics has always been fast. It's just this particular branch that was slow," Honey comments. "Look at her smooth skin! She's too cute!" Nol points out to which Honey punches him. Mother 1003's plump pearly sheen figure on top of the podiums looks around with its bifocal button eyes and continues with her permanent straight black line smile, "If the parents can proceed to head out." Honey hugs and pecks Little Bee before proceeding out. Nol breaks down clinging to Vail to which Vail turns pink and pushes him away. "You're so evil," whispers Honey secretly smiling as they head out. He shrugs proceeding to hold her arm.

Mother 1003 proceeds, "You can call me San or Mother. cuarteno to vocational proceed to head out and take the line." Many children head out through a side wall that opens revealing a platform where an electric shuttle awaits them. Facing the remaining children, Mother 1003 begins "I will guide the rest of you until you are comfortable with the institution and its related matters." Blinking its eyes, she displays a hologram of a clump of three story buildings standing sided by side in a circle and spreading outwards: "My children please look at the diagram of the institution. The buildings in the color of sand will be class for new students and Primeros. Secunds and terrcero will head to the copper colored buildings. Please help your juniors second and third years with any questions or instructions at the institution. The group of grey buildings are divided into basic, inter, and prof education covering skills you need in keeping logistics. The silver building is for when you decided where to work at. We'll get to the details when we get there. Food is distributed three times, two snacks and a lunch at an hour past high noon, throughout the day in each buildings respective roof. For break, you are free to move around the building but not out of the institution. I'll pick you up at 5. Any questions?" Wadling to the wall that had opened earlier, Mother 1003 heads to the platform, "Children please follow me. Remember to stay behind the yellow line and don't look down if you are not used to taking any lines." Some children listen while others look down. Below the roads are packed with their parents and other adults heading to work. Some feel disoriented and lean too far to the point they activate the protection field and they bounce lightly back. One child vomits and Mother 1003 heads to him patting him on the back and giving him a round red lollipop. "Lick this to calm down your nausea" says Mother 1003 soothingly. The children eye the lollipop grievingly and stare daggers at the child. Some other slyly hold their tummies and say, "Mother/San my tummy doesn't feel good", "me too!". Mother 1003 scans them, "children, analyzing your specs I conclude that your satisfactorily healthy and without any eminent ailment." The children sigh and "aww." The shuttle arrives. Mother 1003 urges the children to get on before getting on. Looking over them, Mother 1003 nods to a camera on the doorway.