“Er. Yes. Um. Are you. Are you… lost…?”

He made what
could be recognized as a confused expression. He’d never seen a toon
like this before. Was he even actually a toon? The critter looked more
like ink to the VP.

“If you’re here to recover an SOS, there’s nobody here yet. The day’s just barely started, you know…!

The Repairman sighed in relief. This giant clearly wasn’t going to be a danger to him. Still, the bot’s assumption surprised him. Was he used to seeing characters as small as the Repairman visit him?

“SOS?,” he replied. “No, I don’t even know what that is.”

He could see the confusion in the robot’s eyes. He looked down at his
blob form, and took a quick look around. As per usual, he didn’t quite
mesh with the world around him.

“As you can see,” he replied, shuffling his lower body, “I’m… not from around here. If you could tell me a bit about this place, that’d be nice.”