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Doves

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Two, wearing her Garden Experts apron, pulled the curtains back and flooded the room with predawn. Nos-4-a2, not quite awake, rolled away from the light while Two’s eyeforms traced a flock of geese through the blue-gray sky.

Their honking cut through the chilled air, awakening a gentle cacophony of bird calls. Nos folded a pillow over his head.

Coo-oooo, coo coo.

The Energy Vampire’s optic shot open.

“What is that?” he growled.

“What? What’s wrong?”

He turned back over and glared toward the window.

“That bird, there’s been one outside my study all week and it’s driving me mad!”

“What bird?”

Coo-oooo, coo coo.

THAT one!”

Two giggled, hovering to the side of the bed and kissing his forehead. “That’s a dove.”

Nos’s brow furrowed. He flipped back over with a huff. “I’m finding you a new nickname.”
Here's the first of the drabbles! At 138 words, it's a bit on the long side, but I guess that's still close to 100, so... good enough!

This takes place during their early marriage, a few years after they've settled onto Earth but before Nos turns Two.

In regards to the couple's sleeping patterns: I imagine that the EVE Probes have a sort of 2-stage battery, where one high-capacity cell stores a great amount of energy, but it delivers that energy too slowly to function as the sole power source, so it's used to charge a lower-capacity, higher-output battery. The EVE Probes go into sleep mode to charge up the smaller battery, which needs at least 4 hours to give them enough accessible energy for the next day. The larger battery only has to be recharged once every couple of months. Thus, Two sleeps on a nightly basis. Nos-4-a2, however, has no functional need for sleep, falling into the habit only because it's a social norm and he enjoys spending downtime with Two.

Two enjoys sleeping in but has to get up early for her job, where she tends to the plants in the nursery section of the Garden Experts gardening superstore. She also works as a landscaping consultant and does customer service when they're short-staffed. Nos-4-a2 works from home and makes his own schedule, but he's a naturally early riser since his internal alarms wake him up as soon as his battery reaches 10%. That's not to say he's a morning person -- before he has anything in his systems, he tends to be slow, groggy, and occasionally grumpy.



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