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{Jason}
I stretched lazily on the chair in the lobby,looking around in mild interest. Connected to a wall,there was an empty reception desk that used to have a bell on it,which I had curiously dinged repeatedly before it had suddenly disintegrated. The word 'fizzled' came to my mind. Beside the desk,standing against a wall running diagonal to the point where the desk joined the wall,was a tall,plastic-coated skeleton,with a sign beside it that read,"Please study this skeleton in order to learn how to not have it's unfortunate bone structure.",which was odd because the bone structure looked fine to me. I was sitting on a chair placed inside a large semicircular indentation in the wall,one of eight. Behind me the wall,which was made entirely of monitors,was displaying stick figure animations of various Aperture Science inventions. To the right of the indentation,past the desk and the skeleton,was a circular door with a blue stick man on it,and to my left was a glass elevator that I had emerged from a couple minutes earlier after waking up in a cheap motel room. I tapped my foot absently,wondering idly if it was going to disintegrate too,when a fresh wave of boredom suddenly overcame me. "Uh,excuse me? Um,I'm not sure what I'm waiting for,but I'm extremely bored. Could I maybe have a book or something,please?",I asked the ceiling,feeling stupid the more I said. However,almost as soon as I finished talking,a hatch opened in the ceiling,and a tube extended into the room. From it I heard a lot of banging and clattering,and then a cube with pink hearts on the side fell into the room. I cautiously approached it,examining it from all sides and noticing a typed note taped to the side that said,"Figure out how to open it,and you can have your book.". I tore the note off and ran my hands over the cube,poking and prodding various points on it. I tried pressing the hearts down,but nothing happened. I tried prying the sides apart,still nothing. Moving my hands more slowly,I discovered that there was a series of slight indents on one side of the cube. I gently pressed down on them at once,and the opposite side popped open. I scrambled on top of the cube and swung my head over the edge,not expecting to see a single red eye looking back at me. "Target acquired.",it said in a childish voice,and I hastily swung my head back up as it began shooting at the skeleton. "That is not a book!",I yelled to the ceiling.
{GLaDOS}
I watched as the Development Core exited the elevator,looking around the lobby with curiosity. He crossed over the the receptionist's desk and started dinging the bell. He didn't stop. I eventually fizzled the thing,to his utter confusion. He then sat down on one of the chairs in front of the monitors,tapping his foot and looking toward the replica of the lunatic's skeleton. I briefly contemplated fizzling his leg before he stopped and asked the ceiling for a book. I immediately dropped the prepared cube into the room and watched as he examined the note. After successfully opening the Cube,he glared at the ceiling and angrily stated the obvious. I rolled my optic before catching myself in the act of a very human gesture. I huffed angrily and,once again,tried to delete Caroline. The announcer once again announced cheerfully,"Caroline deleted.",and once again,I found that he had lied. I sighed and gave the boy his book,and would have raised an eyebrow at his cautious poking of the thing,if I had any that is. He picked it up after assuring it wouldn't explode,and cheerfully started reading. Honestly,exploding books? Ridiculous.
{Jason}
I stretched lazily on the chair in the lobby,looking around in mild interest. Connected to a wall,there was an empty reception desk that used to have a bell on it,which I had curiously dinged repeatedly before it had suddenly disintegrated. The word 'fizzled' came to my mind. Beside the desk,standing against a wall running diagonal to the point where the desk joined the wall,was a tall,plastic-coated skeleton,with a sign beside it that read,"Please study this skeleton in order to learn how to not have it's unfortunate bone structure.",which was odd because the bone structure looked fine to me. I was sitting on a chair placed inside a large semicircular indentation in the wall,one of eight. Behind me the wall,which was made entirely of monitors,was displaying stick figure animations of various Aperture Science inventions. To the right of the indentation,past the desk and the skeleton,was a circular door with a blue stick man on it,and to my left was a glass elevator that I had emerged from a couple minutes earlier after waking up in a cheap motel room. I tapped my foot absently,wondering idly if it was going to disintegrate too,when a fresh wave of boredom suddenly overcame me. "Uh,excuse me? Um,I'm not sure what I'm waiting for,but I'm extremely bored. Could I maybe have a book or something,please?",I asked the ceiling,feeling stupid the more I said. However,almost as soon as I finished talking,a hatch opened in the ceiling,and a tube extended into the room. From it I heard a lot of banging and clattering,and then a cube with pink hearts on the side fell into the room. I cautiously approached it,examining it from all sides and noticing a typed note taped to the side that said,"Figure out how to open it,and you can have your book.". I tore the note off and ran my hands over the cube,poking and prodding various points on it. I tried pressing the hearts down,but nothing happened. I tried prying the sides apart,still nothing. Moving my hands more slowly,I discovered that there was a series of slight indents on one side of the cube. I gently pressed down on them at once,and the opposite side popped open. I scrambled on top of the cube and swung my head over the edge,not expecting to see a single red eye looking back at me. "Target acquired.",it said in a childish voice,and I hastily swung my head back up as it began shooting at the skeleton. "That is not a book!",I yelled to the ceiling.
{GLaDOS}
I watched as the Development Core exited the elevator,looking around the lobby with curiosity. He crossed over the the receptionist's desk and started dinging the bell. He didn't stop. I eventually fizzled the thing,to his utter confusion. He then sat down on one of the chairs in front of the monitors,tapping his foot and looking toward the replica of the lunatic's skeleton. I briefly contemplated fizzling his leg before he stopped and asked the ceiling for a book. I immediately dropped the prepared cube into the room and watched as he examined the note. After successfully opening the Cube,he glared at the ceiling and angrily stated the obvious. I rolled my optic before catching myself in the act of a very human gesture. I huffed angrily and,once again,tried to delete Caroline. The announcer once again announced cheerfully,"Caroline deleted.",and once again,I found that he had lied. I sighed and gave the boy his book,and would have raised an eyebrow at his cautious poking of the thing,if I had any that is. He picked it up after assuring it wouldn't explode,and cheerfully started reading. Honestly,exploding books? Ridiculous.
