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I'm just out of school like I'm real real cool

Who: Kobra and Daneel
Where: Their house and then the lighthouse
When: Backdated to Day 17
What: Adventuring!

Kobra was bored and when Kobra was bored, destructive things happened. Having already broken a few things in the kitchen, Kobra went searching for some new entertainment. Normally, he'd just jump all over Party or something, but the asshole was out somewhere having fun without him.

He wound up climbing up the ladder and knocking on Daneel's attic door. "Hey, man, you around?"

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"I do possess genitalia," Daneel confirmed, calmly. He was fairly certain that was what Kobra was asking him; it made sense, in context of their conversation. "I would hardly be a convincing simulacrum of humanity otherwise. I'm also capable of maintaining an erection if I wish, though of course I have no ejaculatory function."

Kobra just looked at him for a moment. That was a lot of science-y words right there.

"Is it still fun for you?" It would be really uncool if they made it so that it wasn't. There's something so cruel about giving someone the tools without any use for the payoff.

"I've never had opportunity or reason to perform that service for anyone," Daneel said, rather thoughtfully. "Kobra, I don't have any sort of sex drive. I cannot have an orgasm. Still..."

He had thought about this, especially after the deacivation, the death of friend Jander.

"Still, it seems to me that I would find it pleasurable to provide that sort of pleasure for someone, particularly a friend whose well-being was important to me."

Kobra just gaped. "It's not... when you call it a service, it sounds all bought and paid for and shit. Not that I'm the kind of person to wax about the emotional side of sex, but it's not like washing someone's car or somethin'. Even when you're just friends, it's still, y'know, intimate and shit."

He was bad at explaining this, but thankfully they were almost at the lighthouse. Maybe he should let Lyds explain this stuff. She was better with words.

He'd said that wrong, clearly. Daneel was admittedly out of his element in these matters, though.

"I'm sorry, Kobra. I didn't mean to give that impression. On Aurora, it's not uncommon for humans to make sexual use of robots, even ones that aren't humaniform. It's usually seen as aided masturbation."

There were exceptions, perhaps, but that was how it was and he'd never thought much of it, either way. It simply was. Now, though, Daneel looked up at the lighthouse, more concerned about the potential dangers that might lie within than sexual morals.

"Yeah, well... you're a person, Dan." He stopped just before entering, dropping Daneel's hand. "You add a second person, it's not masturbation any more. You're a friend, not a fuckin' vibrator."

It was pretty cut and dry to him. Daneel might not see it that way, but he had a personality and he had wants and things made him happy. He was a person in Kobra's book. He didn't know about those other robots, but he knew about Dan. They lived together and they were friends.

"I have known of cases where it's seen differently," Daneel allowed. "But as I said, it's not something I have personal experience with. I can only anticipate my own reactions."

Well, the lighthouse. He looked up at it for a moment, considering what they might find, and reached to open the door for Kobra.

Kobra plastered a grin on his face and walked in, waiting for Daneel inside the door. Okay, weird, rickety noises, check! Not enough light to really see much, check! Ghostbusters theme... He started to hum aaaaand check!

After a moment, he moved towards the stairs.

"Do be careful," Daneel said, following. "This place has been abandoned for an unknown amount of time, and there might be damage or decay that could be dangerous."

It would have been difficult for him to not say that.

"Careful's my middle name, Dan." Perhaps the biggest lie he'd ever told. He takes a careful step on the rickety stairs and then another. He can take a little fall if he has to.

"You coming?"

"Of course."

Daneel moved closely behind Kobra, testing the stairs cautiously under his greater weight.

"Is there something you hope to find here, Kobra?"

"Pirate treasure would be cool." He grinned, taking a few more steps slowly. "Or a ghost. You think there are ghosts?"

There was an answering creak from above and Kobra's head shot up. Oh, shit. He wasn't sure if he was excited or scared. Probably both!

"I don't believe that there are such things as ghost, Kobra."

He wasn't sure of that anymore, not after meeting Castiel -- whatever he is -- but the existence of supernatural, incorporeal entities didn't rest easy with him. Daneel would take almost any explanation over that one.

"I suspect pirate activity to be more likely, though I can't judge whether there would be treasure here."

"Oh, check that out!" He saw a little gleam between two stones and hopped up a few more steps to try and squeeze his fingers in there. He just manages a tiny grip and a tug and... it's a gum wrapper.

"Damn."

In all honesty, Daneel thought the likelihood of actual treasure of any concrete value was very small. He had more hope for information, but even then, it was a small chance.

"Don't be discouraged." He put his hand on Kobra's shoulder. "I think we're far more likely to find something at the top than on the stairs. We have plenty of ground still to cover."

Kobra grinned. "You're right."

There was an odd scrape-creak from above and Kobra jumped to attention. "What was that?!"

Daneel looked up, his expression blank, but feeling vaguely alarmed. He hadn't been aware of anyone else in the building. There were any number of things it could have been: some small wild animal, for example.

"I don't know, Kobra. Shall we investigate?"

"Well, obviously." He took a deep breath to calm himself a little and then he started to climb the stairs. He was a little freaked out, but Dan was with him and it was probably wind, anyway.

Daneel was close behind, focusing on anything he might sense up above that was out of the ordinary, and not coming up with anything. He didn't like being behind in a situation like this; he would have preferred to be able to take the lead and shield Kobra from any danger, imagined or otherwise.

"Have you heard anything about this lighthouse I should be aware of?"

"No, but it's creepy as fuck, right?" Or maybe robots didn't pick up on spookiness. He wasn't sure.

Suddenly his head snapped to the left. There'd been a bright light just out of the corner of his eye for just a moment, but it was gone now. "Did you--"

"I neither saw nor heard anything, Kobra. What did you observe?"

This was... interesting, if not quite alarming, not yet. Daneel had his head up and was looking around; there might not have been anything at all -- he was familiar with the tendency human minds had for fooling themselves -- but if there was, he would see it.

If -- and it was a very large if as far as he was concerned -- there were such things as ghosts, could a robot perceive them?

"It was like a... thing." His voice was loosing its steam. Fuck if he knew what it was. He barely saw it.

He took a deep breath and took another step and then another.

He jumped. Okay, he couldn't be imagining that. "Tell me you're seeing little light flashes."

"I haven't seen anything, Kobra."

He was frowning slightly, worried, disturbed at the idea that Kobra might be hallucinating, or that he was somehow missing something like that. Neither struck Daneel as encouraging. A trick, perhaps. An illusion. That was a nicer possibility.

And then, Daneel did see something, a brief flash on the very edge of his vision; he turned towards it calmly, and discovered nothing. He shouldn't be able to hallucinate. He wasn't sure what this implied.

"No, that's incorrect. I have just seen a flash of some variety."

Kobra wasn't sure if it was better or worse that Daneel was seeing whatever it was, too. On the one hand, it probably wasn't in his head, but on the other, some shit was going down.

He let out a loud, shaky breath. "Okay. Okay, on we go, right?" This time he waited for an answer before marching on.

He considered for a moment, weighing potential danger against, well, curiosity. At present, there was no evident risk to either of them. If that changed, well, he would reconsider that then.

"Yes, we do. Be cautious, Kobra."

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