Ch.6: Penthouse Hospitality

XL landed in the garden of the penthouse once they've reached the top of the building. As he said the female robot down, he looked around a bit to get a good look at her garden, which turned out to be a rose garden. Around the two robots are bushes and trees of a variety of roses: red queens; golden fairy tales; eclipses; twilight secrets, redgolds…

"Wow," he said to the female bot as she glided over to a bush of prairie sunset roses. "I didn't think I'd ever find a rose garden like this one in this part of Tradeworld."

"I love roses," she explained as she gently caressed a rose's petals. "They always hold a pure beauty that I can never get enough of, and each color symbolizes a certain meaning."

"Really?" XL replied, scratching his helmet with surprise. "I always thought they just symbolize love and romance." She only giggled coyishly.

"The ever popular roses rouges do," she stated. "But the other colors? Oh, they mean something different and yet something more. La rose blanche symbolizes purity and innocence. La rose lavande represents love at first sight and enchantment. But la rose rose profonde I believe we can both enjoy cette nuit."

"Why's that?" he asked as she gently held a deep pink rose in her hand like a newborn kitten.

"It symbolizes gratitude and appreciation."

"Oh," he replied with a slight blush and a bashful chuckle. "Well, I…uh…" She only giggled at his sheepish reaction.

"Venez," she then coaxed him as she glided over to the glass door to her penthouse. "It may get a little frisquet, and we will be safer indoors from my attacker."

"Uh, good idea," XL replied before turning to the roses, "but…aren't you worried about your roses?"

"Ne pas s'inquiéter," she assured him as she pressed a button by the door. XL then looked up to see a green force field drape over the garden.

"Whoa…"

"This is a special force field I've installed to protect my roses from the cold and city pollution," she explained. "Quite resourceful, non?" He then turned to her as she took out her key and unlocked the door.

"Uh, yeah," he answered, walking up to her. "Guess you love your roses enough to protect them."

"They're mes bébés," she explained as she opened the door. "They're the only company I have here in this city." XL blinked with surprise at the comment as he followed her into the penthouse.

"But…don't you have any friends or family? I'd thought maybe with your rose garden and rose info, you're the talk of a garden club or something." The female robot giggled at his compliment.

"I do have a family member to be honest, a twin brother. But I don't know where he is now. As for friends and a garden club, I'm afraid I don't get out enough as you might think."

"Oh…sorry."

"Pas besoin de s'excuser," she assured him. "Right now, why don't you sit down and rest for a bit? You look a little…tired." She then held her hand out to a black round sectional sofa bed at the side.

"Uh, sure, thanks," he replied before turning to her again. "You sure you don't mind?"

"Of course. I am just going to slip into something more comfortable."

"Oh…uh, alright." As the cloaked robot left, XL sat down and lied back on the sofa bed before looking around the living room. The walls are a bright crimson with large windows overlooking the city, and the redwood floor is covered with a vermillion carpet. He also saw that there's a plasma TV just a few feet across from him, and a round glass table stood between them, holding a glass vase of red queen roses and a couple of fashion magazines. The only furniture he sees besides the sofa bed is a fuchsia armchair at his left and a sunset red sectional sofa with white throw pillows.

For a robot living alone, she really knows just how to live.

Meanwhile, the female robot had slipped into her luxurious bedroom and behind the goldenrod dressing screen. Then she removed her hood from her head, allowing her long red hair to cascade to her shoulder blades and let the lights shine upon her silvery blue skin.

"Looks to moi like I've caught myself one handsome hunk of a robot," Sirena purred as she undid her cloak and hung it up to reveal her lovely red dress and goddess physique. "I am most certainly going to keep him as my beau." At the thought of it, her eyes glowed bright red as she grinned to reveal her sharp fangs.