Training the girls to fly drones was hopeless.
*Crash!* Went both drones, but into each other this time. This was the fifteenth time that I had fixed the drones, and both girls had consecutively crashed them every time. I was a man of great patience when it came to things like this because it was not something that a person that had never even seen before was just going to be able to fly, but this was ridiculous.
"You have the entire upper space of the warehouse that has very little to hit. How did you both manage to hit each other?" I asked as Miles entered the warehouse and waved to me.
"Kilna is back! Should I send her in?" he asked with one hand cupped over his mouth. Miles stopped halfway, but I noticed that he didn't get any closer than he needed to, but that was fine by me. While I was a machine, I could still smell things, and the man handed me the odor of a sweaty gym bag.
"Send her in," I said, and Miles scurried off after nodding to me, and I turned back to the girls who had taken their headsets off. "Take a break while I fix these."
Both girls nodded, but I could tell that they were just as dissatisfied with their progress as I was, but it couldn't be helped. I would just have to see if the boys were any better, and Rax was on his way back from the city jail right now, but the other two were still moving around usually. Before they left, I gave them cloaks that would help me keep visual on them, and each was loaded with a few exploding bugs that let off smoke and glasses and a few mosquitos that could deliver deadly poisons or nerve agents. Seeing how fast that person had killed the man he was controlling to spy on the compound meant I needed to be able to react even faster.
I walked over and scooped up the drones as I pondered over ways to keep my people alive, but I was also trying to figure out a way that I could start earning some money. While I did, I effortlessly fixed the two drones and then turned to face Kilna.
"I will assume that you have something to tell me, but you aren't going to if it has anything to do with tonight. What I will tell you is that I will be coming alone," I said, and Kilna frowned.
"How would you know why I am here? I only-" She started to say, but I put up a hand.
"Save it; I don't want any part of it. Now, did you come here for just that, or have you made a choice in what we spoke about?" I asked. If my suspicions were correct, Ned would be using Alizra to set me up, and it seemed she was trying to prevent this.
"I would like to work for you, but just know that I came on my own," Kilna said, and I nodded. That made more sense. This would be an act of trust, and Alizra probably knew this would happen, covering all her bases if the Order tried to pin something on her.
"Fine, but if you are going to join, then you will get a small bug inside your neck," I said, and Kilna's eyes went big as Fawna suddenly turned and started to puke, making me smile. She would do it.
"Are you serious?! What is it for?!" She asked with a terrified look.
"To blow your head off your shoulders if you betray me," I said, and Kilna nodded.
"Do it!" She said, and I smiled as I had the bug land on her neck and burrow inside as she tried not to scream.
I looked over, and Fawna was still dry heaving, but now Kyla had joined her. People hated bugs, myself included, but they were as bad as metal, and they were good at getting people properly motivated.
"Once you two are done, clean up after yourself and head back to the office. I will get you both started on transferring documents. That should go smoother than this," I said with a sigh as I turned back to Kilna, who was rubbing her neck. "You were awfully fast to agree," I said, and she nodded.
"I had made the choice that I would do whatever it took the first time I came to see you. Then I explained Necromancy to you, and you had no reaction to it, so I decided then. I think that you can make this city safe and a better place to live," Kilna said honestly, and I shrugged.
"I think that you and I have different views on what safe is, but I think that everyone should mind their own damn business. If everyone just focused on moving forward and not who was in control, then everyone's lives would get better. If I live to see that, it is a way off," I said, and Kilna nodded and then pointed to my hand.
"What are those things in your hands?" She asked, pointing to the drones that the girls had been trying to fly.
"Surveillance drones. I was trying to get the girls to fly them, but I have been working since morning to try and teach them, but they just weren't getting it," I explained, and Kilna gestured to see one, and I offered her my hand. The drone was a wasp-looking robot that had once been yellow at the start of today, but it was now covered in chips and silver replaced parts.
Kilna inspected it and then looked up at me. "You made this?" She asked, and I nodded.
"Yes, it was a project that I was working on. I was going to try and make a few more, but I think I am just going to have to find something else that the girls can do," I said, and Kilna hummed.