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Fair knight, the code of love says that marriage is no obstacle to lovers." Her brow wrinkled. "Does that satisfy you?

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. —Thomas Jefferson

ART (aka Asshole Research Transport)

Oh shit, my media!...No, wait, I had access to some of it.

The systems of constructs are inherently inferior to advanced bots, but you aren't stupid. Yeah, well, fuck you, too, I thought, and initiated a shutdown sequence.

Amena is on the survey because her education requires an internship in almost getting killed, I guess.

We made it outside to the pedestrian plaza and I asked her, "Do you need a medic?" I thought she might be sick. If I was a human and I'd had to be in the pavilion with all those other humans for the past two and a half hours, I'd be sick.

I thought it was likely that the only supplies we would need for DeltFall was the postmortem kind, but you may have noticed that when I do manage to care, I'm a pessimist.

I have extracted living clients from situations that were less than nine percent survivable. I'm more than qualified to make that call.

The last thing I wanted was to ask the company gunship for help. The last thing I wanted was for GrayCris to catch us. The two last things were incompatible.

I had a plan, but it was mostly "keep the hostiles off the ship," which is not so much a plan as a statement of hopeful intent.

There were three SecUnits who were not me on this planet, and that was dangerous enough.

I wanted to pick it up and have an emotion over it like a stupid human.

I do make mistakes (I keep a running tally in a special file) and it looked like I had made a big one.

Impersonated is a weird word, especially in this context. (I just noticed that. Im-person-ated. Weird.)

The only people I've run into who actually want to get into conversations with SecUnits are my weird humans. I said, "I have an alternate solution to both our problems

She eyed Moon without favor. "And you. You have to be coaxed to do everything except risk your life.

A normal SecUnit (you know, one that still had its governor module, less anxious than me but probably more depressed

I watched a little media in background during that part, since I'd already seen the whole clip.

Mensah's really smart, she can sort-of bribe me and tell Indah to fuck off simultaneously.

I could feel ART metaphorically clutch its function.

SecUnits are never allowed to sit down or use human furniture whether on or off duty, so I sat in one of the chairs and put my feet up on the table. Then I took my feet off the table because it wasn't comfortable.

And botched was putting it mildly; it looked like a bad human medic had jammed it in with their toes.

And of course I had a camera on the unfolding shitshow on the observation deck.