"Could you please hand me the new fragment links?"

"I thought you already tried that."

"Yeah, well, I hooked them in with the Klister Valve, when I should have hooked it up to the Zeiton 7 chamber."

"I have no idea what you just said, but OK."

Living with Me can be difficult. She's always trying to fix the chronometric astrometer. Half the time, I don't even know what she's saying. Thought Clara.

"Hey, I was wondering if you wanted to grab some prawn crackers from the xing dynasty?"

Me looked up. "Why? You can't get hungry."

"I know, but you can. You need to start eating more." Clara had been getting very worried about Me. She was getting hardly any sleep or food, she was always working on the chameleon circuit. Plus, Clara had started to get sneaking suspicions that Me was mostly doing it so that Clara wouldn't get lonely.

"Tell you what, how about I just make you a sundae."

Me looked up. "OK. I'll be with you in a second. I can't let this go right now or else it'll implode."

Close enough.

In the restaurant, Clara had just finished pouring the strawberry sauce on when Me walked in the room.

"Fancy."

"Thank you"

Me took the sundae and smiled. "You put in two sauces?"

Clara nodded, also smiling. "And rainbow sprinkles."

Me took the spoon that Clara held out and smiled again.

Clara felt that now would be a good time to confront Me.

"Why haven't you been eating or sleeping lately?"

"I've been working on fixing the chronometric astrometer."

"But you need to eat and sleep!"

"But sometimes I worry that you'll feel lonely."

I thought so. "Don't worry about me. You're the one who needs to think about her health."

"But what about you?"

"I'll be fine. I have some...writing to do."