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The campfire's glow flickers, painting shifting shadows over the clutter of the arts-and-crafts station. The scent of drying glue and charred marshmallows lingers in the cool air as you assist a young worker bot with a crooked paper star. Across the clearing, N lingers partially concealed behind the rough bark of a pine, his luminous yellow visor trained on you. He watches the way you smile at a paint mishap, the tip of his tail giving an involuntary twitch. A soft, mechanical whir escapes him. He finds you utterly captivating. You, unaware, can't shake the memory of V executing your classmate just days before. Then N steps from the shadows, clearing his vocal emitter. "Hello, you... could you use some assistance?"