Looking back upon it, it seemed to start with little things.
Meeting Hei hadn't seemed like the life changing moment it had been. As far as Yin had been concerned, he was a contractor, and she had to assist in his missions. That was about as much thought on the subject that her programming as a doll allowed her.
Keeping her blind gaze off to the side, she used her other sense to get to know him and the others. She would need to be able to identify them, and she had no particular need of her specter. She did not use it for sight beyond what was necessary. She was used to the darkness.
"Listen, the syndicate says we're to work together from now on. I don't like it at all, but I'm going to listen to them, and if you're smart, you will too," a gruff voice, hard and heavy. The man who was to be called Huang seemed to give off the color yellow. Yin couldn't see the color yellow without her specter, but sometimes people gave off light, and colors, like the moon.
"We know that, you don't have to state the obvious," a second voice. If Yin hadn't been told, she wouldn't have known that it had come from a cat. There was nothing in the timber of his tone to suggest anything less than human. However... there was something about him that reminded Yin of a cat. It was almost like feeling colors, except strangely different.
"Feh, you contractors give me the creeps..." Huang seemed to spit this out under his breath, as if adding the last blow before the end of an argument. He made it plain how he felt about the others and herself. He barely seemed to acknowledge her beyond telling the others that her name was Yin. She was used to this, she was only a doll, and should be treated as such.
"What is our first mission?" This voice... Yin paused when she had first heard it. When he had called himself Hei... His voice had been flat, like most other contractors, but it had been different as well. Yin felt something behind the flat, black contractor's tone. Yes, this man's color felt like black... but it didn't feel like an absence of color, or light. It was strangely warm, and comforting. Yin had never had a fear of the dark because of her blindness. She found it familiar, and calming. The color black was comforting... Hei was comforting...
Yes, it started out with little things like that. The feel of his presence. It all started when she had first met Hei, and felt his comfort. She hadn't recognized it as the beginning of it all. Only as an oddity, an anomaly. As a doll she only felt a few limited feelings, things she needed to function. Everything beyond that was numb. To feel something beyond that, even something as simple as a sort of comfort... Well, Yin wasn't sure; her simple programming wasn't able to comprehend such complicated things. She only knew that she enjoyed the feeling of this man's black warmth.
Yes, that was the start of it all.