Room 238, Wednesday morning

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Aeryn would normally be up by now, already dealing with breakfast or the like. She's awake, but for some reason today she's content to stay right where she is, at least for a little while longer. She blames the warm bed and still adjusting back from Bettina's weird schedule this weekend.

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"Is he hungry?"

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She pauses, wondering if she heard him correctly. "He doesn't eat."

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Bertram starts banging into the side of the bed.

"He could eat stuff."

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"No, he couldn't. Bertram, stop," Aeryn says.

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"Maybe he wants you to walk him," John says, yawning and burrowing closer to her.

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"He can roll around the room himself," she says, frowning but not hating the closeness.

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Bertram quiets down but keeps his eyestalks pointed squarely at Aeryn.

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"That's better," she says, because she isn't looking at Bertram to see him watching her.

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"You and Bertram need to get along," John mumbles again.

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"We get along just fine," she insists."It's just early."

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"Maybe he just needs friends," John says.

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"He met Luke's droid. There was property damage. And possibly plotting."

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"Where was I at?"

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"Being happy somewhere, I think," she says. "I don't remember exactly when this was." Again, early.

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"I'll have to take Bertram by Luke's room so they can play and Luke can kill me," he says absently.

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"Good plan," she says, just as absently. "I restricted Bertram to quarters after the wall thing, though."

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"I'll lift his restriction."

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She rolls onto her side to look at him directly and says, "They put a hole in a wall."

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"It can be fixed," he says, blinking sleepily at her. "He needs friends."

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"We can always get him one of those self-moving vacuums to play with." At least roombas won't put holes in walls.

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Bertram bleeps loudly at her and zaps her side of the bed.

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"Behave," she tells him.

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"I think he wants a real fried, not a vacuum."

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"What's wrong with a vacuum?" asks Aeryn, who might have no idea that the things she's seen on TV aren't sentient.

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"They're not alive," he says. "If one of us isn't here to turn it on, it won't work."