12. Foundry Tavern:

[Chrome Veneer]

Chrome wasn't exactly unconcerned about Kayla, but with so many others sharing in her pain, and the fact that his experience with medical matters was so minimal, he's be more of a hindrance and just add to the clutter. Best to stick to what he knew... and on that note. "The bot appears to be designed to reconstitute other bots... or perhaps something larger?" He considered, talking out loud as he examined the machine. "Due to the damage it took prior to its current fate... I wonder if it is unable to make such repairs to itself?" He thought a bit more. "Then again, it could be the previous blows it had taken that might have rendered it temporarily obsolete, and would not have had the chance to do so?.. hmm.." He continued to ramble, not very loud but audible to anyone that bothered to listen to his musings. "Regardless of whether it could fix itself, or was merely unable to before its sudden reawakening, It bodes an interesting foresight to that we may face... Given this one is designed to fix others, certainly there are others bots designed with different goals. Potentially one more suited to defending?... Defending what i wonder. Even if there were nothing but these, though, then that certainly indicates something large such that it would require these." He realized he started thinking in circles and changed his focus back to inspection of the bots itself, instead of speculation to what its existence could mean.

The entire time he spoke, Chrome was testing the joints of the broken bot, inspecting the way it was put together. "Curious... what could have made it suddenly start up like that..." Glancing over to Val and addressing someone else for the first time, "You said you were cleaning? Anything in particular in the room you were working on at the time?"