5:52 am. He needed to get up. He had to get up. Even if the force he'd been allotted was enough to run his systems probably he still had to get up. At the very least before Kibis noticed he wasn't doing his tasks.
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5:54 am. Jikan got up, his internal gears shifting and his main system jittering a bit. Honestly he was way over due for maintenance and a tune up. Kibis didn't have the shards to spare for that. Jikan started on his tasks on to be interrupted by Kibis.
"What are yer doing?! I'm trying to sell. Ain't nobody who'd take a dirty thing like you. Go make yourself look like your actually worth something!"
Kibis shouted his fat face turning red like a tomato as spittle flew from his mouth. Jikan slipped out of the refinery's main room back to the small space he was allowed to inhabit and went about trying to make himself look more...presentable. he used some scrap metal he found on the floor as a comb. He also used some more low quality force crystals, out of his extremely limited supply, to make himself look healthier and better taken care of than he has been in years.
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7:48 am. Kibis barged into jikan's space and grabbed him by the arm. Kibis dragged jikan out of the room ignoring his yelp of surprise. Jikan was taken to what used to be an office and now served as a guest room. When Kibis pushed him in the room it took a bit too long for his balance mechanisms to kick in, he nearly fell. Jikans mechanical eyes narrowed as he realized there was a guest he'd never seen before here. The guest was dressed in fine clothes even by Shicai standards. A tight black sleeveless undershirt, a half jacket with copper accents and slightly baggy pants with many pockets, along with a belt with pouches, he also had a pair of copper googles over his eyes. The glass in the googles was even shaded, a rare sight in any city. The man himself was fascinating to look at he had extremely pale skin with light freckling across his nose. long white hair pulled back into a messy but practical ponytail. Jikan couldn't quite tell what color the man's eyes were but the looked orange or brown from behind the shaded goggles.
"Akaei this is jikan he's a 23rd gen synthetic. He's in decent condition and he's a good worker I'll part with em for....let say 6,250 shards" Kibis smiled kindly at the pale man in front of jikan. There was no way jikan was actually worth that many shards.
"Hmmm" the man, akaei hummed in consideration of Kibis 's offer.
"It a good deal aye?" Kibis insisted with a greedy glint in his eye. His pudgy fingers interlocking with each other as he clasped them together. The pale man thought for a few moments longer before finally responding.
"I suppose I could spare that many shards" akaei moved his goggles to his forehead revealing his red eyes.
At 8:09 am exactly jikan was sold. Just like that. His eyes glanced around the office. The walls suddenly felt to small, and his metal body felt even colder than usual. Jikans eyes fell on a clock hanging on the office wall. It was slightly off center, but jikan didn't care he simply willed the time to go faster so this could be over with. Of course it wasn't that doing such a thing really made any difference the outcome was the same.
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8:37 am. jikan walked out in an awkward silence with the man with the red eyes, Akaei. While jikan was already dreading his circumstances Akaei on the other hand seemed quite pleased with himself. This made jikan scoff out loud, realizing his blunder jikan's eyes wide as he watched for Alaei's reaction. When he received none he relaxed slightly. Akaei led jikan to his waiting golem mount. The golem was vaguely feline in design. As soon as jikan boarded the large stone and copper creature it took off at Alaei's command. The golem ran for a long time through the city of Shicai. The ride gave jikan plenty of time to admire the city, with it's tall buildings, copper and bronze accents and even some of the showing machinery parts. Jikan had nothing better to do than watch the people of the city go about their lives. Some shopped and traded while others seemed to be enjoying themselves in ways jikan as an ensealed never got to experience.
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9:12 am.