Notes

Tristan opened the door to her workshop and motioned clanky inside. Inside the workshop was an old looking mattress on a wooden frame (best she could find) and a coloring book with various crayons scattered around the floor of the room. Clanky waddled inside and sat on the bed, the reached across to a table and lifted off a little basket with three bronze automaton birds in it that looked at him and waddled around, He petted them gently in turn and put the back on the table before curling up on his bed and pulling a light blanket over him. a little robot, probably three feet tall and with a feminine voice crawled out from under the bed holding a blue crayon. "Tristan! Tristaaan!" it called and hopped up and down until its Inventor picked it up, "Yes little one?" Tristan asked, "I-I lost some of my crayons..." it said sadly.

'We'll find them tomorrow I promise, and If your good we can play outside, just the three of us" Tristan replied and the little robot nodded its little head, "Okay. I'll go to sleep now!" Tristan put it down and it waddled over to the bed and climbed onto it, curling up in Clanky's arms. "I'll be back in the morning." Tristan said before shutting the door. and going back to her cabin.

the next morning, Tristan got up and dressed herself before heading off to the workshop. she heard Clanky's monotone voice, and Echo's high-pitched voice from inside and she peered through a crack in the doorway, they were both sitting on the floor and Clanky was teaching Echo how to color in the lines. Tristan's chest locked up and she blinked back tears, it was so adorable. she knocked on the door and heard Echo's happy squeal "Mommy!!!" but she was soon silenced by Clanky pressing a finger against his face-plate and making "shh" noises.

She opened the door gently and smiled, "What's going on here?" she asked when she saw Clanky standing in the middle of the room holding something behind his back, and Echo happily fidgeting with her hands and shifting from foot to foot, her eye-lights glowing a bright white beneath the face-plate. "Guess what guess what guess what!" Echo shouted happily while jumping up and down. "What is it honey?" she asked, and Echo pointed to Clanky, "We uh, We made you something." Clanky said and removed his hands from behind his back. it was a piece of A3 paper that had a drawing of Tristan on it, smiling and brushing hair out of her eyes, it was mainly done in pencil, but her eyes had been colored in by Echo, it was clear they'd been working on it all morning.

Tristan's bottom lip quivered and she picked up Echo before heading over to Clanky and hugging them both. "Oh." Clanky said, his voice muffled by the sound of Echo's childish giggles. "I guess you like it then?" he asked. but didn't really need an answer, he knew she did.

Tristan stopped hugging them and put Echo on the work table. "You worked on this all night didn't you?" she asked, and Echo enthusiastically nodded her head. "Mhm! We waited till you fell asleep and turned on the oil lamp and found some pencils, we kept messing up and stuff...But now we did it!!" she exclaimed. then looked at her feet as her legs dangled over the edge of the table.

Clanky ended up face palming, creating a dull clang noise as his bronze had collided with the face plate leaving a small dent. Echo gasped, "NoooOOO!" the little robot yelled and tried to waddle her way across the table.
Tristan got there first. She traced her hand over the dent and frowned. "Are you okay?" she asked, and the Android nodded in response. "We shouldn't have stayed up..I'm sorry Tristan.." he said, causing his Inventor to frown even more. "No no, its okay....its okay Clanky...really..." she replied, "Don't ever hurt yourself again please?" she asked and then Echo jumped in. "Yeah! Your not supposed to hurt yourself you big, giant...man!" she yelled angrily before Tristan shushed her.

Clanky nodded and sat back down on his torn mattress before picking up the basket filled with straw with the three brass birds in it, they moved around the basket, bumping into things and each other, making little tweet noises as he pet them, Clanky occasionally mimicked the tweet noises with amusement.

Echo tilted her head to the side and looked up at Tristan. "Momma Triss...Where is Silver?" she asked, then looked around confused when Tristan, Clanky, and even the birds went silent. "WHat?" she asked, sounding a little panicked and bouncing her hands atop her knees,
Tristan winced, she didn't have the heart to admit that Silver had been destroyed and that she hadn't gotten around to fixing her yet, as Silver was even more advanced than Echo and Clanky...
Sensing his inventors discomfort, Clanky placed the basket on the bed and waddled over to Echo, and picked her up. "She'll be home soon..." he said. "Promise?" the little robot replied, and Clanky nodded his head softly.