[Drabble] Nanobot (Mushishi/The Diamond Age)
Title: Nanobot
Fandoms: Mushishi / The Diamond Age
Characters: Ginko
Rating: Gen
Wordcount: 100
Summary: Ginko encounters an old friend.
Author's notes: Based on Nano-evolution, my Mushishi fic (WIP). [Edit: Since posted: Nano-evolution] Crossover with Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age, or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer. First posted here on March 27, 2007.
The nanobot circled before his left pupil thrice. Ginko stopped walking. It moved to the right, circled before that eye, then back to the left.
Ginko recognized it. He thought he'd left it in New Shanghai/Atlantis with the honer he'd sold it to, but the chances of two mites doing the exact same non-attaching behaviour with one specific human were microscopic.
Ginko waited for it to land obediently on the diamond plate he held up. He examined it with his phenomenoscope. "You've evolved," he said, marveling. Previously, the limited AI programmed within had prevented it.
Life had found a way.
Fandoms: Mushishi / The Diamond Age
Characters: Ginko
Rating: Gen
Wordcount: 100
Summary: Ginko encounters an old friend.
Author's notes: Based on Nano-evolution, my Mushishi fic (WIP). [Edit: Since posted: Nano-evolution] Crossover with Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age, or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer. First posted here on March 27, 2007.
The nanobot circled before his left pupil thrice. Ginko stopped walking. It moved to the right, circled before that eye, then back to the left.
Ginko recognized it. He thought he'd left it in New Shanghai/Atlantis with the honer he'd sold it to, but the chances of two mites doing the exact same non-attaching behaviour with one specific human were microscopic.
Ginko waited for it to land obediently on the diamond plate he held up. He examined it with his phenomenoscope. "You've evolved," he said, marveling. Previously, the limited AI programmed within had prevented it.
Life had found a way.