The next day Aranea woke up and groaned. She was not happy, a tiny mechanical spider ran past her letting off small puffs of steam. The gears made a slight clicking sound that only lasted a second as the spider stopped in front of her. Huffing Aranea stood up from the couch, effectively making the spider move. Walking to the small kitchen Aranea was met with the smiling face of Heather talking into the phone while making some pancakes.
Aranea nodded her head in Heather's direction and Heather waved the spatula, getting a bit of batter on the floor. Immediately a crowd of mechanical spiders came to clean up the drop. Aranea smiled, she had been the one to make those spiders after all and it made her proud to see them doing something that no one in the house had time to do. A door down the hall opened and the quick pounding of feet made Aranea turn around only to be run down by Nicole.
"Oh good golly miss Molly! Are those some of the famous pancakes made by Heather Moorison?!" Nicole's comment was clearly sarcastic but made Heather smile all the same. The response was a simple smile but that made Nicole jump off of Aranea and latch her arms around Heather.
"Hey sorry to cut you off, but I have to go. Bye" Heather hung up the phone being polite as usual. She placed the phone back onto its charging station and flipped the pancake in the pan.
Nicole detached from her victim and asked the that Aranea was about to make. "Do we get some pancakes today or are those just for work?" Aranea closed her mouth glad she didn't have to ask but a bit upset that she was cut off.
Heather nodded and placed the pancake on a plate that was promptly carried off by some spiders. The plate was carried off and smothered in butter and syrup for one of the girls to pick up. Nicole always claimed the first plate so Aranea didn't even try instead she picked up a spider that was flipped over. She placed it back on its feet and looked over at the cat that was calmly licking its paw outside.
"Hey Heather can I have my pancakes for the go? I need to go to the train station and make sure there are no problems with the trains." Aranea almost always asked for her pancakes rolled up with jam in the middle so that she didn't have to sit down and eat.
Heather's response was the usual nod with a little smile. Knowing that everything would be ready for her to leave quickly Aranea went to change in the bathroom. "Do you have to work today Heather?" Nicole's words came out muffled by the amount of food in her mouth. Heather nodded and placed Aranea's pancakes on the plate to be taken care of by the spiders.
Taking out a small metal card Heather pressed a few buttons and a spider came over to Nicole holding a piece of paper and a pencil. The spider moved its legs in a fashion that no normal spider could master and wrote out "I have to work overtime, need to make up time I was out for." Nicole hummed in response and took another chunk out of her pancakes.
"I'm off, see you later tonight, and make sure to have the rent card filled out by 68 tonight." Aranea tossed a glass card with a metal rim on the table and grabbed her pancakes and tools and headed out the door.
Nicole looked at the door Aranea had left through and said, "That girl is crazy." Heather nodded in agreement and started eating her pancakes.
Aranea took a bite of pancake and started walking down to the train station being careful that the jam didn't fall out the other end. She heard some footsteps that sounded like a running android and moved out of the way. A few seconds later there was the sound of metal falling to the ground and groaning. Aranea quickly turned around to see the previous running android on the sidewalk, steam no longer coming out of the fallen machine. Her legs moved without her meaning them to, and she bent down the the android carefully rolling it over so the chest cavity was exposed. After rolling over the android she opened the small compartment and waved away the steam that escaped. Placing her goggles over her eyes she looked for anything that could be obstructing the flow of steam. There was nothing, so she closed the cage and moved to the android's head. Slowly she picked up the head and placed it in her lap, and opened the back of the head. As the steam dissipated she saw what the main obstruction was. One of the gears was lodged in a smaller pipe's vent and stopping the "brain" of the android from getting enough steam.
Aranea took a pair of petite pliers and pulled the gear out making sure to not to harm the gear or vent. Unsure of where the gear should go she simply placed it in her tool box and closed the android up. Reaching back behind the android's neck she flipped the "reset" toggle and brought the android back to life.
The android sat up and released steam from the vent in it's back. It turned around until it saw Aranea and released a bit more steam. Aranea moved her goggles down to hang around her neck and smiled at the android. "W-were you the one to repair me?" The voice sounded a more tinny than it should have, Aranea thought she must have damaged the artificial vocal cords.
Taking a second the android used steam to clear its throat and let it out through its mouth, seeming to cough. Andrea smiled at the fact that she had been able to help the android. Even though she worked on trains she originally became a mechanic to work on androids, robots and the like. Realizing that she hadn't yet responded Aranea nodded her head, too happy to respond with words.
Aranea looked down at her watch and saw that she was running later than she would like. "I really have to go, I did what I could to repair you, but you should still probably get checked out."
"T-thank you, I will. Safe travels." The android turned and started running again. Glad that she was able to do what she had dreamed about she walked to the train station office with a smile.