<span style="color: #808000">Mikel shifted to hide behind Vance again, when the source of the noise peeped over a large pile of scrap metal and old technologies.  She blinked and peeped her head out a little, from behind Vance, looking up at the creature.  <br/><br/>"What is it, Vance?"  she whispered to him, putting one hand up to push her hat back into place.  Once she'd had a good look at the creature though, she stepped out from behind Vance, a look of awe and excitement on her face.  <br/><br/>"You must be a newer model!"  she exclaimed.  "See Vance, that is something like what I want to do with you!  Look...she even has artificial skin to make her look more humanoid.  I wonder what's wrong with her?  Has to be something, else she wouldn't be down here."  she moved closer, trying to get a better look at this Venus creature.<br/><br/>"Mikel...stop thi-" Vance started to say.  <br/>"Oh knock it off Vance.  She's not going to hurt us, she would have done so already, if she planned to."  she cut him off, waving him off with her hand.  <br/><br/>"Now pick up that metal, and we'll get her back to base camp so we can get her fixed up right good."  She smiled like a child, happy to have a new toy.  And finally a real basis for a humaniod model for Vance.</span>