"Hi, Owen, right? I hope you don't mind if I already got my drink."

"You know me..?"

"Ah, right. Sorry I didn't tell you before we met. I'm Lucy."

"Ah... Um.... I'm going to go get my drink. Umm.. Don't go anywhere. Please."

"Okay..." Crap. Maybe I should have told him before we met for this date. But he messaged me even without a picture of me on my account, so he can't be that bigoted, right?

"I'm back. Sorry about that. It's... A surprise is all."

"I know it must be. I'm sorry."

"Please. Don't be. You had no images, I was expecting you to be awakened. I just didn't expect a statue, let alone a jade one."

"So you're okay with this?"

"I don't know yet. I've never really interacted with an awakened person in romantic terms before. I know human/mannequin and human/sex doll relationships are becoming more and more common. But there's fewer of your kind, I don't have any background knowledge."

"Well, that's working both ways. My fellow statues by and large aren't that interested in relationships, so I don't have much to go on either. I'm kind of petrified right now."

"Haha."

"What? What did I... Oh. Petrified. Ha! I didn't even catch that."

"Well I'm glad you said it, because it's good to know you're nervous too. From our conversations on the app I thought things would flow freely, and figured I'd ruined everything by stumbling off to get my drink."

"No, I expected something like that. I'm just glad you didn't run off entirely."

"Well, now that we're here together, let's work on human/statue relations. Maybe we can help others follow in our footsteps."

"Hey now, we've only taken the first steps here, let's not get ahead of ourselves. Tell me more about yourself..."