"A roboticizer," Alessa repeated. "Then I'm correct in assuming that its function is to make people into robots. How...exactly is that done?"

Not that she needed to do that for anny reason, or had any real desire. She was interested. As for the swear word, well, Alessa had heard far worse than that. Words like that meant little to her.

"I am Alessa," she said, and gave the hedgehod a thin lipped smile. She knew by now how scary it was when she actually gave her full blown smile, and she really only saved that for scaring or to let someone know she didn;t like them.