you'll live forever tonight;; open

[QUIETUS]

[align=center][div style=" background-color: transparent; border: 0px solid black; width: 500px; min-height: 9px; font-family:georgia; line-height: 110%; text-align: justify; color: black; padding: 20px"]"You, me, and Shiva can take shifts. We're big enough to handle him, and we'd still be able to get everything done while the other is watching him." Quietus felt odd giving out any kind of order, but there it was, in the back of his throat and lodged in his mind; shaking his cranium as an afterthought, the male would turn to the robot, who seemed so very eager to speak. "I'll go first." he offered. "If you're not just some machine, stop acting like one. You kill one of our members and only seek the need to apologize when it fits your agenda. If you weren't a robot, you'd have more sense in joining us first, to where we could feed and help you like we do to anyone else who doesn't threaten the lives of our community." his eyes were hard, and his tone was cold, and he could not help his prejudice against this contraption when it was not like them. It had not been born from a womb. Had never tasted mother's milk, felt the sweet sense of accomplishment when your father looked down on you with pride. It had been made by humans, for humans. It knew nothing of being an animal. Nothing. This is what Quietus told himself. "Your apology will be made in the morning, to everyone. You will tell them exactly what you did, why you did it, and explain how very sorry you are to have killed an innocent. After, you will hunt like all of us do, with no help from another, because that is how you get your food here. You'll be guarded by us three until you can prove to us - and anyone else - that you're in the least bit able to be trusted and accepted into our group, a group that is vulnerable enough as it is without machines feasting on their innards. And if it isn't me, Shiva, or Seija watching you, it will be another member. And if you decide that these rules aren't good enough for you, Prey, then there will be consequences."