an android is tested. for science.
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The place looks just like she left it, but it's vibrating as if affected by a low-scale constant earthquake.

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Well. That's a thing that's happening.

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It is! There are various things falling from the sky but most of them are going straight for the Death Pits.

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Any danger of her perch being disturbed?

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Yeah, probably eventually. The walls are shaking rather more and some metal beams are being moved and the whole structure is slowly starting to shift.

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Right. Ways out?

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Well she's in a sort of corridor: to one side there's the Death Pits and to the other there's a wall with a square hole on it and a large-ish square metal grate.

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She can probably clamber up to the grate.

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She can!

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And then through to the hall.

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"Oh good. You're alive. I was starting to wonder. Please do proceed."

The corridor she's in is more like a proper one, and it turns right with some debris she can squeeze past.

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"Fun as that sounds, no."

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The room shakes again.

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She feels more secure here and this doesn't inspire her to move.

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The various plates on the wall every now and then jiggle and twitch, but nothing more happens for a few minutes.

Then a claw descends from a hole in the ceiling to grab some debris out of the way.

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She's ready if it comes for her.

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It doesn't. It just seems to harmlessly rearrange and clean stuff.

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Uh huh.

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Cleaning cleaning cleaning and rearranging!

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She's not going to sleep as long as it's there.

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It's not going to be there long—as soon as it's removed the biggest pieces of debris the rest can be swept off with panels.

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How long does that take?

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At this rate it's probably going to take a couple more hours for it to be pristine.

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Back to sleep, then.

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If she leaves her motion detectors active they'll be detecting a lot of motion over the next few hours.

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