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A muffled transmission slowly gained strength. "W-What? What's going on?"
The rest of the keytools bleeped with murmurs of relief. They had insisted the first one I heal be Copeland. Now, hearing his signal again, I could feel all our spirits rising, even my own. "Welcome back, old friend."
"Glitch?" He noted the energy uplink. "What's this?"
"You've been logged off for a long time." I told him. "Its good to see you online again."
"It's good to be back, but…" He scanned me. "How did you get this power?"
"Look around, Copeland!" Kink cried. "Look at the lights!"
He scanned. "Wow! In all my process time-" He aborted and launched a new train of thought. "What happened to Bob?"
"He's in a strange crystalline state." Errol told him. "His body is overloading, making these pattern instabilities."
"But don't worry." GUI assured. "Glitch can use it! He's going to heal us all and then we'll get out of here!"
"It looks like you all did find without me." Copeland said, then focused on me. "Good job, Glitch."
"Thanks." I think I blushed again. Sprite senses, pshaw, any keytool can feel these kind of things if they would only take a moment and appreciate what they have. I had a body full of friends and a chance to overcome all my limitations and save them.
I also had a dying guardian. Time to get back to work!
"Line up, people! Refills start here! Then we'll find a way to break out of this shell and go home!"