Evangeline meets Mz. Hyde

"Purchase all the mechanical devices you need in your everyday
life, at Ms Evangeline Hyde's Automated Emporium!" A harrowed voice calls
out from the street in front of the society. The voice is hoarse and desperate,
loaded with so much well practiced cheer and salesmanly charm as to almost
counteract that tiredness.
A small, dirty canvas sign is hung up over a table, proudly designating
this "Ms Evangeline Hyde's Automated Emporium." Not that it seems
much of an emporium. A grubby table, littered with small robotic trinkets,
tools and toys, stood over by an exhausted looking woman. She's smiling
broadly, but her eyes look weary and darkened, her hair tangled, and the hem of
her skirt muddied and filthy. There's some money on her table, but not a lot,
and no wonder. If it weren't for the table and the trinkets, she wouldn't have
looked much more than an ordinary beggar.
Mz.Hyde: Hey, what's this doohickey?! 
*Mz. Hyde holds up one of the small machines.*
Ms. Evangeline
Hyde:  Gah,
be careful with that! *She tries to grab it back, but it grips onto your wrist.
It almost looks like a mechanical hand.*
Mz.Hyde: What is it?
Ms. Evangeline
Hyde:  It's
a hand! *She pauses, briefly.* I mean, it's delicate! And it tends to grip onto
anything it touches, so...
Mz.Hyde: Cool! Is it like an automated back-scratcher or
something?
Ms. Evangeline
Hyde:  Um,
no. It's just sort of... a hand. *She begins trying to extricate it from Mz.
Hyde's wrist.*
Mz.Hyde: Like...an accessory or something?
Ms. Evangeline
Hyde:  It's
just sort of a hand. But it's mostly anatomically correct! And it used to be
able to do more things, but some of the parts are broken now.
Mz.Hyde: Oh. Oooo! What's this?!
Ms. Evangeline
Hyde:  *Evangeline
quickly kicks a metal heart under the table.*
Mz.Hyde: Hey, that looked really cool!
Ms. Evangeline
Hyde:  It's
nothing. Really. Also it's the least broken thing that I currently have, and
I'd like to keep it that way.
Mz.Hyde: I'm not going to break anything!
Ms. Evangeline
Hyde:  It's
not that it's just, uh... *Sigh*. People don't tend to react well to some of
the things I make.
Mz.Hyde:But I'm not other people, am I?
Ms. Evangeline
Hyde:  *She laughs.*
Ha, well, not really. Okay. *She pulls the heart out from under the table.* If
I had a source of power, it would be beating right now. It's fully functional.
It would be too heavy and, you know, metal, for a real person to have, but...
Mz.Hyde: But.....???!!!!
Ms. Evangeline
Hyde:  But,
if someone were try and make, say, a person? Or a soul? Not that I was trying
to, uh, do that or anything.
Mz.Hyde: Ok, and......??!!!!!
Ms. Evangeline
Hyde:  Well
it would work. It would function as a heart. Not that I'm planning on doing
that, ahaha. *She looks very nervous.*
Mz.Hyde: Are you making a half-human half-robot person?
Ms. Evangeline
Hyde:  Uh. I
was trying to. But the people who were funding me pulled my funding and kicked
me out. That's why I'm here.
Mz.Hyde: That's so COOL! Do you have any idea how many
people will benefit from having fake parts?! Think about it: Vets able to walk again,
kids given a second chance at life, survivors of horrendous accidents able to
move on!!! Why did they stop funding this?!
Ms. Evangeline
Hyde:  I
mean, I wasn't really trying to do that. They pulled my funding because I was
trying to engineer a soul. *She looks kind of sheepish*
Mz.Hyde: Ooooo! Even cooler!
Ms. Evangeline
Hyde:  Well,
thank you, but the way they put it was more, "against the wills of nature
and god."
Mz.Hyde: Pffft! I bet you everyone of them heads to the Red
Rat on a daily basis!
Ms. Evangeline
Hyde:  *She
chuckles, for a second.* Still, I don't have anywhere to go now. And barely any
money.
Mz.Hyde: You mean you don't live here?!
Ms. Evangeline
Hyde:  Uh,
no.
Mz.Hyde: Why not?!
Ms. Evangeline
Hyde:  I
mean, I hadn't really paid attention to where I was going, I've just sort of been
wandering these past few days. What's so special about "here"?
Mz.Hyde: This is The Society for Arcane Sciences!
Ms. Evangeline
Hyde:  And
people live here?
Mz.Hyde: Not just any people: rouge scientists!
Ms. Evangeline
Hyde:  Rogue
scientists? You mean... mad scientists?
Mz.Hyde: Yep!
Ms. Evangeline
Hyde:  Uh...
Is there room for another person? *She smile apprehesively.*
Mz.Hyde: There's room for your whole family if you wanted!
Ms. Evangeline
Hyde:  Oh!
That's wonderful! Could I come live here then?
Mz.Hyde: Of course!
Ms. Evangeline
Hyde:  Oh,
thank you thank you thank you! *She grins*
Mz.Hyde: You can thank me by pursuing your studies! Come on!
Let's get you settled in!
Ms. Evangeline
Hyde:  Of
course!
== Obtained From ==
Ms. Evangeline's Emporium