"Hey, man, you okay? Smarty here hit your shutoff switch." Janet jerks her fingers backward at the man still glued to the ground, but her gaze softens as she sees the Flatbed hover up next to her.<br/><br/>(Dude, do you not hear Janet loudly say that she didn't trust the guy after he tried to kill Eric? Ah... well, I'll work with it.)<br/><br/>"Alright, I'll give this a shot..." she mutters. "Eric, MOTHER's people asked me to take you their closest body. I'm humoring them, but We got two ways of doing this."<br/><br/>The VTOL girl pauses, then glances back at the man. "I just commed the cops, told them you probably just had no idea what you were doing. They'll still arrest you, but you'll probably get off with out Jail time if Eric doesn't press charges."<br/><br/>0000000<br/><br/>Minara smiles and looks around the large meeting room... (What's the meeting room like? sorry to keep asking... but I guess that's the crazy thing about having a character be a Location as well!)<br/><br/>"Well, if we aren't having anyone living in it, we might turn that into an official Day Care or baby sitting service..." The woman glances around the room speculatively. "Would you object to having windows installed? MOTHER Consolidate has very good Snyth-organ-crafters, if you can't learn how to make flesh clear..."<br/><br/>the woman takes a moment to rub the nearest wall consolingly. "it is a bit of an issue, Sapphire, because civilian children do a lot better with sunlight."<br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold">BACKGROUND DUMP/WORLDBUILDING</span>=<span style="font-style: italic">Open to argument/interpretation</span><br/><br/>Another quirk of living in a living city... some macros didn't like having windows, despite how comforting they were to civilians. The windows couldn't open unless they were very advanced, and Only really unfair civilian-macro contracts insisted on windows if the macro didn't agree. Many Macros considered it weird, and this option was only for 'non-military' macros.<br/>Military or police Macros, who didn't EVER want to expose their insides or the civilians inside them for obvious reasons. Most regular macros followed this logic... it was better to be solid to keep civilians safe and their lives and property private.<br/><br/>On the other hand, MOTHER Consolidate had developed much more Macro-friendly window organs for Natural-Organic macros (like Sapphire), and more than a few magical macros could learn to make parts of their body clear to let sunlight in. Bio-Mechs by their nature often had windows or the 'transparent flesh' built in, and could adapt more easily to it than most Organic Macros.<br/><br/>Besides that, sunlight was a big comfort to civilians, especially if they hadn't been born inside a living city (and another body! XD). Still, most Macros made do with internal lighting for the most part.