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Chapter 28: Machine Shop

In a way, she is grateful for Bo, especially when he finds her an underground, abandoned machine shop and helps her break in. She spends the next tense hour repairing Pip while Bo paces and waits with a total lack of patience.

She does her best to ignore him. He's the one who's gotten her into this mess, isn't he? And yet, without him, she would have no idea where to find the gunslinger and Pip would likely be dead.

It's a close thing, as she triggers his cyborg systems back to life with the help of a small genny she is able to activate. His metal parts sizzle and spark while his organics twitch, but it's not until his red eye opens, servos inside whirring, she exhales in relief.

"Pip." She strokes his feathers smooth while his beak opens and shuts, heart settling into a steady rhythm, if a little fast for her liking. "Stupid bird, what were you thinking?" The same as he's always thinking, she reckons.