["Friends" seems pushing it a little. The Asset is not really sure what being friends entails, but one conversation and concerned oversight in the Enclosure doesn't seem like it ought to count. Even if a name and a piece of origami were exchanged.]

We spoke some. He seems nice. He used to be a slave, too. Let me into the Enclosure after a nightmare then just kind of. Followed me back here to meet Vesta.

[He tests one of the textures with the metal hand and is disappointed, but unsurprised, when he can't actually register it. Whatever sensors are in there, they aren't calibrated for that level of delicacy. Too bad.]

She wasn't particularly interested in letting him touch her, either. She just sniffed from the blankets.