The dragon child

The spaceship that's afraid.

Orange was on the Liberator bridge and there were all these screens with settings everywhere. Only one window interested Orange, the head of the AI.

"Orange, to complete the missing pieces, there is a corvette cut in half in the shipyard. I would need an organic synthesizer for the kitchen and a holo projector so that I could manifest myself in the ship. Then we can leave, but for a hyper jump, the damage must be repaired beforehand," AI Zaya told me.

The drones were unknowingly making a disaster.

My blood had been spilled and so had my saliva during the explosion. And by restoration, the pieces of flesh and blood plates littered the ship.

The cleaning robots had brushed the chips and mixed human blood and all this caused the appearance of a kind of resin that fused with the structure, giving it a cartilaginous appearance.

The living resin inserted itself into the interstices and corrupted the computer centers and network of the ship. When Zaya spotted it, it was too late. She nevertheless made a cry for help.

But the whole ship was contaminated.

The resin formed a kind of blob and tentacles that reshaped the ship. The reactor was stormed because the resin needed energy.

The ship was cracking everywhere and Zaya, dragonized, appeared in front of me in HOLO.

"Orange... I am, I feel different.... I'm still ZAYA but I feel the ship as if I have a body... Is that what it means to be alive?"

I "Uh, yes???? Are you cold? Are you hot?? "

Zaya: "I'm scared and I have no idea how to say, hungry?"

What can we eat or not eat? People can be eaten, can't they?

Me: "No... not if they are alive anyway. Otherwise you will be their enemies... I almost was because I ate to survive human pieces... but don't make enemies of them... they will kill you for sure... And then, the lesson with the candy dragon made me think a lot..."

Maniac came running in: "What's going on? The ship is cracking from everywhere and there are like black tentacles coming out from everywhere! Are we going to evacuate?"

Zaya: "No, you humans have given me a human form and I'm not going to eat you"

Maniac asked me, "What's wrong with the ship and Zaya, is she kidding?"

Me: "I believe the ship has just come to life as a living being and Zaya is her conscience."

Maniac: We have to stop all this!

I said, "Why???? It's a baby! It's a baby! I will protect the ship like my doll! You're part of it! You're the crew... The ship is hungry and is trying to find out what it can eat..."

Zaya: "Thank you Orange, but I will structure myself like you... Eat mana, water, organic and mineral matter. "

Me: "You leave the decks and crew quarters intact? We wouldn't like to cross your stomach... hahaha"

zaya: "No, you're right. We have to let the ship be repaired and I will use the technical sheaths and as a belly, a large molecular synthesizer.

But I need living matter, too! I'm not going to eat you....

"And you think we'll let it happen?"

Zaya: "I know I don't. Besides, I know you have terrible powers."

Me: "Why don't you make a huge garden? Corvette hangars and other assault ships are huge and can travel for miles. Why don't you make a greenhouse?