

They eventually reached a wide hall full of weird human sized containers. Together they walked further into the vault and the further they walked the colder it got. Cait didn’t like it but it seemed important to Sole so she agreed. Today’s trip to Vault 111 was weird and out of the blue. Some lazy settlers couldn’t get off their arse’s to fight off a few ghouls or they were gettin’ a handful a’ caps to go fight a bunch a’ muties. Usually they had a purpose for the places they went. They’d been traveling together for ages and Sole didn’t really ask Cait if she wanted to go places, they just went. Cait had been confused when Sole asked her to come to Vault 111 with them.

“It’s not my fault you refused to wear a coat.” Sole joked but Cait noticed their voice had a twinge of sadness in it. “Why do we have ta go to this stupid ice box again?” Cait complained, rubbing her bare arms. Ada knew that there was no way she could repay Sole for how they helped her, but she would still continue to try.

Ada and Sole then left the vault together. “You are welcome, Ma’am/Sir.” Ada responded. “Alright, we can go now.” They addressed Ada as they moved to close the door of the pod. They held the cold metal to their lips and whispered something Ada could not hear before slipping the ring in their pocket. They seemed to be taking a ring off of the hand of the human. The door to the pod slowly opened as Sole approached the human. They pulled a lever and the Ada heard a hiss of the pod depressurising. They shed a few tears before they approached a control panel that presumably controlled the machine the dead human was in. I appreciate you being here for me.” Sole then turned back to face the dead human. If there is anything I can do to aid you please let me know.” Sole smiled sadly and turned slightly. She felt she had to help Sole as Sole had helped her. Ada remembered back to her own experiences with death and grief. Sole looked up at the deceased human and their eyes began to water. When they stopped before one of the pods towards the end of the hall it became clear to Ada that Sole had a relationship with the deceased human they had stopped at. Ada noticed as they walked that frozen human corpses were held in each of the pod-like machines. Sole’s mood seemed to worsen as they led Ada down the hall. Ada’s internal thermometer told her that it was quite cold so she assumed the machines were the source of the unusual temperature. The hall seemed to house a number of large machines. Through the vault until they arrived at the entrance of a short hall. She began to suspect that Sole was visiting the death site of someone who she was close to. Ada knew of this emotion from what she had experienced with Jackson and her fellow robot’s deaths. She recognized the emotion in Sole’s face to be sadness, greif. When they began to descend on the elevator that led to the vault, Ada noticed Sole’s mood start to shift. Ada had heard a bit about vaults from Jackson but she had yet to visit one herself. Today Sole had informed Ada that they wanted to visit the vault they had come from.
