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It’s slipped in front of her, reassuring lean bulk between her and the intruder. Its also somehow managed to catch the syrup bottle she had dropped without noticing, and it sets it on the counter.

Oh yeah, memory archive active, I remember what happened. Yikes.

It’s also not like I didn’t know what the real problem was. I’m not a bot, I’m not a human, so I don’t fit into any neat category.

There were no Corporation Rim corporations here, so no reason for corporates to come on business. Some came as visitors sometimes, but most were afraid to travel outside the Rim. (They thought everywhere outside the Rim was all raiders killing everybody and cannibalism.)

I said, You’re using the public feed, everyone can hear you. So are you, ART said. And you’re leaking on my deck.

(If I’m going to make up shit I’d rather do it about something else besides how a human got murdered by another human.)

I wasn’t annoyed at all. Not one bit.