When the morning arrived, Otto woke up and saw two girls asleep on his floor - this guy didn't care, he went to his bathroom to shower, he came out with a bathrobe
He didn't pay the two girls who were asleep in the floor any mind at all, he did however call out his maid, what emerged was a lady with average looks she had pimples with an eyeglasses she even seemed shy
"Your highness I am here"
Otto looked at her while in his bathrobe, "Give these two ladies some care"
The maid bowed her head, and she went to the exit of the room. She was grateful for the two ladies who were unclogging
The maid, having felt that the burden was relinquished onto them, she went around the mansion and outside, picking the clothes that they left off. She did all she could to ensure that the blouse and the white dress were pristine
Soon she arrived back on Otto's room, she had made sure that the clothes that were unworn clean
The maid tries to wake Ava and Brianna up with her two hands
"Wake up, wake up, its morning now" she insisted on this for about 20 minutes
Soon Brianna's eyes started to open, and so did Ava, their heads were fuzzy they had processing everything but Ava had already processed what happened, Ava stood up from the Brianna
Ava looked at Brianna who was still on the floor with her eyes open, "Brianna, we collapsed after unclogging the toilet. Wake up, this mansion's maid had already had our dress cleaned"
Brianna looked at Ava while still processing the surroundings, she replied, "Oh, I see"
Brianna stood from her floor, two of the girls were half-naked, the maid announced, "For your cooperation of unclogging the toilet, I took it on myself to clean your clothes"
Ava asked, "Are your washing machines advanced?"
The maid with glasses answered, "Yes, our washing machine and our clothes cleaning tools, even the quality of our detergent is advanced"
The maid further elaborates, "I could like clean like 10 clothes within the 30 minutes timeframe"
Ava says, "That makes life more convenient, you do have to put up with sir Otto's lack of manners correct?"
The maid bowed and reluctantly said, "Unfortunately so, miss Ava, there is a heavy burden being a maid"
The maid pointed her finger at the bed showing their worn clothes, "I have made sure to have your clothes clean"
Ava looks at the maid and gracefully shakes her hands as a grateful gesture, "Thank you, maid. It's an honor that you would help us with our clothes, yes indeed, it was a real pain in the ass to unclog that toilet"
Ava wore her blouse, she fastened the buttons of her blouse, Brianna followed suit wore her sleeveless dress, for some reason Brianna retained her necklace and golden bracelets.
Ava yawned and straightened her arms, giving herself a warm up before saying, "We're set" they started their separate ways, meandering around the mansion
The mansion had a tall mirror yet wide, its grandeur and refraction of light were impeccable. The floor had this soft touch.
Each step felt like a cushion stack of powder, soft befitting the royal king.
The majesty of the floors and windows were vast, yet his experiences with Otto showed to be insufferable.
She has to recall trying to unclog the toilet, even pushing the plunger on the toilet because the poop was so large and solid - it refused to dissolve itself
Ava had her mind shattered at this realization, a wealthy man yet he reeks of emasculated manners.
Ava pinches her own nose. Ava muttered to herself, her mouth showing total agony, "Kill me"
Ava can also view the props as well, those props were old, some from east asia, the other came from the southern side of the earth of the east. There were also dolls with kimonos, one had a small but clean elephant wearing a hindu hat statue with a man riding it.
The more she walked, she saw a painting of him, mr Otto Theodore, he was wearing a prominent green suit, with a necktie - he had less mustache, but his face was there, his hair were brown
His hands were on his waist, as he oversees the ongoing construction of buildings, his head looked as if he staring at the legacy that will come after him - the drones and builders that were constructing the buildings
The skies were filled with carbon dioxide grey-ish brown clouds, as if he was symbolizing that during his prime time Sector 451 was fraught with worldly messiness and ecological plight before it became the most ecologically stable and clean world with monoliths that almost reached the skies.
Ava stared at the painting, the frame that held the canvas was brownish, wood texture.
She asked herself, "How can a man like him fall into gluttony and decadence" staring at the magnificent painting of him, seeing the painting was like seeing Napoleon crossing the Alps.
She stared at it for about 5 minutes, before walking off
As soon as she walked off from the view of the painting
From the distance, she can see a cat walking around the palace, it was fluffy one it's skin pigment was orange like ginger as soon as the distance between the two of them closed in she saw a stray cat, it was thin - it's fluffiness was still there, but it was way too rough
As Ava kneel down she looked at the cat, she sees the collar on the cat it said, "Mittens" the cat purred
Ava played with the kittens, but she realized something with her touch she could sense that the cat was very dirty.
Ava stared at the cat, her skin was very rough plus it reeked.
Ava's head rotated and she pinched her own nose, "Ughhhhhhhh, unbelievable?"Her lap was already holding the cat
She stood up and grabbed the cat, the cat purred, "Meoooowwwwwww" as Ava held the stinky cat, she went to a nearby room and bathe the animal in the tub, while he purrs
"Meooooooow" purr the cat
Ava chastised the cat, "This is what you get for being so stinky or playing in the mud for too long"
"Meooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow" a screech from the cat
After 30 minutes of washing the cat, the ginger cat was already, the cat's face looked as if his hair were pointing down, it literally looked like it gave the cat's face bangs.
She grabbed the cat, and started holding it in her front. Ava's face was literally deadpan, she dropped the cat by unclenching it, the cat fell and it started rotating my feet, he even licked Ava's leg's skin
He continued doing this, licking her feet
Soon Ava and the ginger cat goes their separate but for some reason, the ginger cat decides to follow Ava around
As she explores the palace, she discovers a library room from afar.
She entered the library, she looked around the room - it wasn't that vast but it contained hundreds of books or even thousands of books contained in shelters, it even had a table with chairs and some couches.
Ava walks around the library, where she spots the glamorous lady standing near the shelter reading a book. Her hair was silver, and her skin is porcelain like mine, her frame was tall and her curves were just perfect wearing a sleeveless white dress with golden bracelets and earrings - she looked every bit of a model that came out of a magazine
To her surprise, it was Brianna. Brianna was reading a book, it looked like something out of a thriller novel. Just staring at her was nice, very hypnotic.
Soon Brianna's brown eyelids stared at her, she grasped her book to her chest.
Brianna didn't say anything
Ava analyzed the book cover, apparently the book title was "The Silent Patient" its about psychological thriller of a woman against her husband
Ava estimated the probability these books were touched by Brianna, a probability of 0.01 percent that she had touched the book she cannot make a conclusive evidence
Ava looked at Brianna, "Do you like reading books"
Brianna nodded bashfully, it was quiet submission of a lady she wasn't the glamorous lady
Ava asked the lady, "What genre are you into?"
Brianna answered, "Psychology and thriller"
Ava answered, "Interesting", Ava decides to press forward trying to inspect the page she's reading. Brianna's face got flushed and started backing away from her, Ava approached her again. But she kept dodging and creating space between her.
Ava saw a ginger cat he was inside the library, and for some reason he's staring at Brianna as if he is mesmerized by her appearance.
Ava then looks back at Brianna, "Let me see that book" Ava makes her pace towards , Brianna started running away, soon chaos erupted - Ava started chasing Brianna down, Brianna was running away from Ava as possible while the book was grasped on her chest with her two hands
Ava who was chasing Brianna down remarked while chasing, "I didn't know you were into books. Luxury girl, come show me the book you are reading"
Brianna cried, "No, I don't want to!" her eyes closed
Ava asked in fury chasing her around the mansion, "Why not?!"
Brianna answered while running away, "Cause I can't"
Ava asked, "Are you that self conscious about your image"
Brianna answered, "They don't like a bookworm they want a dumb trophy woman"
Ava asked, "Why are you so concerned about your image"
Brianna screamed while running from the chase, "I am not answering"
Ava asked, "Then I will find out" Ava jumped and tackled Brianna on the palace floor
She started grabbing the book, but Brianna started to defend herself. There was a tug of war between them.
One kept rolling, one was kicking another face
Ava asked, "Tell me brianna, why didn't you stay a bookworm instead of an eye candy"
Brianna shouted, "If I did that….. I would lose the very life I have"
Ava asked, "Why are you so engrossed to this life"
Brianna answered, "Because… Because" her face turning sorrow, "Because this is the life I chose, you wanna survive then you have to sacrifice the part of you that is unique"
"I relied so much on my attractiveness to get things right, I wanted stuff and luxury I got it first time, it was like addiction you were introduced to a place where you could have things for free"
Ava remarked while trying to win the tug of war, "Pretty privileges"
Brianna replied, "Yes, indeed Ava you are right. Pretty privileges"
Brianna playing tug of war, "But the more I lean to my pretty privileges, I realize along the way I did not develop any talents nor skills… I forgotten the very thing that makes me unique to others, my abilities, my individual capacity"
"I realized that I am already trapped… Inside the cage that I was perfect with"
Ava answered, "And that is your beauty"
Brianna tried to pull back the book, "Yes…. Now give me my book, you swine!"
Ava replied, "Never!"
Ava and Brianna would try to hustle the book away from each other
Ava and Brianna's noises were, "Grrrrrrrrrr". Until the maid with the freckles and ponytail steps in, "Stop the two of you!" Ava and Brianna
Maid answered, "You two are creating a ruckus in master Otto mansion, I demand you to stop"
Ava and Brianna stopped, Ava let Brianna have the hold of the book
She makes a distance from Ava holding the book to her chest. Ava proposed, "We can talk"
Brianna's face looked furious, she ran away from her. Ava pursued but the maid stopped, Ava looked the other way around and run to the other side
Ava's mind engaged in stealth, she was prioritizing low noise engagements without interacting
"Oh hmm, maybe I can just look out for that cat" Ava finds the cat, without alerting its presence around the palace - she can tell that the cat was really endeared by Brianna's presence. She followed the cat while being sneaky before seeing her again in the the library
Ava just watched from the side view, of what she's seeing - she hasn't read the book but she knew about its reputation
Brianna was just there, reading the book before saying, "You can come in, we can talk"
Ava arrived inside the library room, she even retorted, "Lucky for you luxury girl, the cat fell in love with your dress that he followed you here"
Brianna threw a book against Ava's head, stunning Ava's head in the process
"SHUT UP!" Brianna crosses her arms.
Ava stood up, with her scratching her head.
"Awh" Ava blurted out, Ava asked with aggression, "What was that for?!"
Brianna answered with a frown, "For the innuendos, Ava. Show some respect"
Ava stood herself up and said, "Alright, alright? Just let me do something real quick"
Ava focus her mind on something, but this time it's different - she uses her mind to connect to Otto's network and then scripted a program in real time in her head to increase the latency of the receiver device in Brianna's body
Basically what Ava did was a dangerous denial of service attack in the receiver's networking unit this will keep the two of them in private
Brianna felt nothing, she couldn't feel anything at all and was confused
"What did you just do?"
Ava answered with a smile tilting her head, "Ahh nothing, I just made sure to give the two of us some time"
Ava proceeds further with, "Now, let's talk"
Brianna's brown eyes stared at her, "Tell me this Ava, do you think you are beyond the game you are in?"
Ava answered, "I know I already am, but it's hard to tell"
Brianna interrupted rudely, "No, you are not! You think you are beyond the system, but here you are getting corrupted slowly by it"
"You think that every man is something you can weave a string to your finger? No! The reality is that you will end up in the whims of every man, so the best thing you can do is play the part instead!"
"I don't understand, how you will try to transcend yourself beyond the trophy or sex object"
Ava walked near Brianna, she looked at her face forward, "I don't know what you suffered Brianna. I can't understand your meaning, but you speak with clarity even if it's laced with malicious projection"
"But I know this, I am very singular in one thing and that is connections and power"
"I actually - really don't know if I can ever" however Brianna interrupts, "Exactly, you thought you were some seductive person trying to overthrow the system. No, Ava you were acknowledging yourself as a player in the game"
"Do you know how many powerful wealthy men can be dangerous or nonreceptive if you try display a level of intelligence that is not concordant with any pretty female archetype"
"For the longest time, I had to focus on my beauty just so I could thrive in this world, and eventually I got constantly rewarded and when I realized that" Brianna hands clench themselves
"I was already screwed, I didn't have any talent, I did not develop anything in me other than my beauty - I was already stuck, I had to play my part everyday or modelling just to earn luxurious items and parts"
"I have made beauty, my priority my pride and now it got me stuck to where I am"
"And the moment, I got impregnated my self-preservation was threatened - if anyone were to find me with a child, their image of a beautiful trophy would shatter, it wouldn't matter if anyone like me has a silver hair, perfect lipstick, porcelain skin, or skimpy clothes if I am with a child - it's a no-no for others."
Brianna composed herself, and sat down on the chair and elaborated, "Plus, I don't think I can ever be a mother with anyone. This world is too cruel just for a child to experience, it's like you are sending them straight to hell instead of sending them to heaven just by aborting the baby. I can't deal with it, the responsibility is too high"
"So what did I do?" Brianna with her hand hoping Ava to answer
"I was about to go for abortion, not for my child but for myself. It's a win-win condition, both of us are happy but yet"
Brianna's head angles down with sadness in her eyes, "Yet… It only sealed my faith to the system of adultery and erotica capital"
"I was already sealed, I had a lot of sex, went into modelling runaway, was soldered into top best magazines like Vogue, Louis Vuitton, Gucci"
Brianna's disgruntled face even forward, "Yet in the modelling industry, everyone was so beautiful and backstabbing - gossipy. I tried showing myself I was met with back-lash and hatred, so I told myself to shut up"
"Not even trying to stand out, but for others - turns out it was way better to just be a model with business man and influential ones, since they provide you amenity and luxury items"
Ava listened
Brianna's face turned into resignation, "There is nothing for me Ava, what you said about me was true - I am a trophy and shallow person. Either you are consumed by the system after learning your limitations or you rise up and become the enemy of it"
Brianna's face looked the other way around, "And I don't want to be an enemy of it, I deserved this fate"
Ava leaned on her chair, closing her eyes, "I am sure I have met your child Thea, before. You and her really looked alike"
Ava expected Brianna's to lighten up but instead Brianna only angled her head upward with a lukewarm resignation
"Cool, I don't really care anymore. But tell me, what was Thea or whatever you call him or her like?"
Ava answered, "Different, she is a girl. Had platinum hair with brown eyes, I had to play with her for once - think she was a lab rat"
Brianna's resignation faded away, "A lab rat? What do you mean, I thought she was being taken care by someone"
Brianna stood up she was finally thinking for herself, scratching her chin, "This changes things"
"What was she a lab rat for"
Ava was reluctant answer, "If I answer that, you would increase your chances of losing the very life you had"
Brianna looked out in the windows, "Well, it's better to then just go outside"
Ava followed along with Brianna, "Away from the proximity where anyone can hear and recept"
Ava and Brianna have left the mansion they are in.
They were near the trees, Ava answered firm, "Cybernetics and genetic engineering"
Brianna's head went overclocks, "Cybernetics and genetic engineering - this is crazy? Is this what my daughter has been living in - A lab rat"
Brianna's scratch her head, a great deal of stress built in her head, "Give me a while to process this"
Ava said, "Alright take your time"
Brianna's head hurt for about 30 minutes, unable to contain her sadness. Ava was leaning in the trees, just taking her time off arms crossed, her eyes closed
As the 30 minutes finished, she looked up at Ava and stood up, her tall curvaceous frame her head looking at Ava with curiosity, "What were the powers of my daughter, given that she was treated like a lab-rat?"
Ava looked at her, "I was a new employee now a retired software engineer - your daughter, she was intellectually gifted, able to answer questions regarding thermodynamics, she even outsmarted me in hide and seek, trapped me in a cargo room with no lights, and made a couple of dangerous traps. Eventually I caught her, second time - she was empty, no words"
Brianna listened, Ava said, "Move to another laboratory for further testing"
Brianna asked Ava, "She was intellectually gifted right? This project regarding genetic engineering and cybernetics"
Ava's eyelid look at her while leaning her torso in the tree, "Yes, like the other lab rats her being was engineered with cybernetics, and the ability to interface with technology unlike no other"
"They are contained in the laboratory, and was kept quiet about their abilities in order to them keep them non rogue"
"I think I only knew this, because of intuition. Don't ask me about how I know, it's uncomfortable"
Brianna laughed, she commented, "So my child is a genius, just giving up my child for about like what 789,650 credits made my child a genius and yet I spend it on stuff like anti-aging pills and medicines, and dressers clothes, female empowerment"
Brianna laughed, she saw the irony and folly of her behaviour, her grin was that of a stressed female.
Brianna with bittersweet sorrow, "At least my daughter is a genius beyond anything I can be, I am just an artpiece to be displayed, my daughter and I separate beyond orders of magnitude."
Ava commented, "I thought it would be 1 million, no that was wrong wasn't it damm… I have been misled"
Ava straighten herself with her eyes furrow, "Stick to the point, what is your decision now Brianna, are you gonna be here just to rhapsodize near me"
Brianna was stunned, before answering her honestly, "Huh, no the thing here is that I don't know if I still can be a mother or not. This lifestyle I have it's too relaxing, if I were to go and pick my daughter that would put a damper on my lifestyle"
Ava asked in a calm collected manner, "So it's either you preserve your luxurious lifestyle or be a mother and lose the life you have"
Brianna responded with a tease and playfulness, "Something like that. I am quite happy though that my sweet daughter is a bonafide genius with powers"
Ava interrupted, "Yeah and she is being a lab rat and will soon be drafted to a place where she is a prisoner"
Brianna was stunned by the revelation, "Oh, now that's certainly worse. Definitely don't know if I should include myself there, but I"
Brianna face head lost confidence, "I actually don't know if I can, I am too much of a loser to do anything really"
Ava asked Brianna directly, "Do you want to see your daughter or not?"
Brianna looked at Ava with conflict, "I… I am just a girl who likes spending time with men for luxury things. How can I bear the burden of being a mother? I am sure someone else there can accommodate"
Ava interrupted, "I am not asking for your resume" Ava's face showed annoyance, she proceeded with, "I am asking for your approval if you want yes or no!"
Brianna was stunned for a bit, before shouting impulsively, "Yes. I do" only for her to cover her mouth
She scanned if anyone heard them, luckily no one did.
Ava looked at Brianna, "Good then it's settled. I have an idea Brianna, one that would bridge forth between your need to save your daughter and your luxurious lifestyle"
Ava straightens her head as she now stares at the mansion, "I propose you help me with connections, you and I can make connections, give me information regarding those connected to Genesis Innovation Inc - you can live your life here, but I am here to expand my forces at the same time however I will dismantle the system that holds all the lab rats, and she will be in my care you will be allowed to see her once I am done"
Ava clench her open hand staring at her fist, "Once I am done with the system"
Brianna scratch her head, "You are confusing me Ava, what do you mean she will be in your care, what's with Genesis Innovation" Brianna realize, the contract she had when she was given by an anonymous person
"I understand now, still what about her in your care" Ava answered, "You said you are conflicted with being a mother and wanting to live a glamorous beautiful arm candy, so I am giving you liberty to visit your daughter anytime you want but only in controlled settings"
Brianna asked, "Maybe I could visit her"
Ava's head looked left, "Are you crazy? That's top secured facility you don't just go there and expect to be accepted"
Brianna shrugged, "What else can I do, wait for you to liberate them like some hero"
Ava answered, "I am not a hero. I have other goals other than rescuing them"
Brianna remarked, "Really, you are an interesting but frustrating type."
Ava sighed, "Hmph"
Brianna said, "We can talk about the whole list of people connected to Genesis innovation later. This is a bit too overwhelming for me to be quiet fair"
Brianna winked her eyes toward Ava, "In the meantime however, I am gonna start indulging and performing my act. Ta ta"
Ava and Brianna went back inside the mansion, and resumed their object-like roles.
Ava and Brianna are back in their assumed roles, Ava stood inside the mansion and so did Brianna