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"You made a simple mistake, Sol. Any child would have done the same thing when first discovering a gun." He laid there patiently, waiting for Solomon to stand before standing himself, dusting the dirt from the back of his own clothes.

"no don't--" Too late, the metal frame for the door was knocked over. Luckily all other walls stood erect, so Xan simply lifted it back up and moved it to a new stop, setting it in deep before moving the other walls. He let Solomon have his moment of silence while working, setting up the panels to make one entire wall before looking over. "A penny for your thoughts, Solomon?" he asked, going to the pile of trash and carefully picking out new things to make walls with.

"The Helga Bomb was what destroyed most of it. All we wanted to do was stop the war, and we did. We stopped life as we know it." he continued pulling out scrap, building walls best he could, listening to the song. Selective memory loss, it seemed.

Solomon would be fine.

He finished, the sky dark and the winds cold. "This will be our temporary shelter for this evening." he said. "Come, you need your rest."

"Sir," Xan started, pausing as the man was laughing. He just threw up, his memories were scattered and scrambled and he needed rest after throwing up blood. Luckily he seemed to not need to explain this since the human went into the shelter regardless. The android looked around at the dead bodies and loose scrap metal before going inside the shelter, lifting a piece of metal and covering the opening with it. "Sol I do not know where the healthiest water supply is nor do I know a good shelter." There was a spark of something warm in his chest, but it certainly felt rather, bad. And Xanxaru began running scans on it while speaking. "And due to the large amount of sand and dirt in the atmosphere I cannot use the satellites. However there was one roughly eight hours that way," he pointed right, "And that would have been our station tonight however you had different plans, which is why we're staying the night here. My most logical suggestion is that we wake up early to travel there, and once we reach there we stay for another night before moving on."

His scans were showing it was a rogue program, automatically making it malicious.

The blue eyes looked down at red, thinking on his question before exhaling softly and lying down beside him, resting his hands on his stomach while doing so. "Shall I turn on my heartbeat for you to listen to, Sol?"

Being that the head was laid on his chest, yes, Solomon wanted his heartbeat turned on. Closing his eyes and turning on the program, the muffled 'thum-thump' of his heart became heard, a small vibration with each bump to make it seem as realistic as possible.

And with that program running, changing the settings to keep it running, he entered sleep mode, eyes closed, supposedly sleeping.

Sleep turned off, blue eyes opening as his internal clock told him it was 8:32:26. Glancing to the side he gently slid out, moving a bag in his place before looking around and double checking inventory. He had said not to wake him up, but now he had nothing to do than sit, finishing the inventory rather quickly. So he sat there, going through his database and doing random searches, mostly on the world before the HELGA bomb.

"Behind you, Solomon." Hal said softly as he continued his research. "Did you sleep well? You looked very well rested. One could say you slept like the dead."

"Always so pessimistic." the android chuckled, "We are ready to depart again whenever you're ready. We'll be heading back onto our original route. I do have some food for you to eat if you're hungry. Though we'll need to find another food source soon." They were running low on their current supplies, and with vegetation and animals scarce it was getting harder and harder to conserve food.