“Made to be used by humans,” Ronin said. His jaw actuators clamped down. “Built for their pleasure. My purpose is to pretend I’m one of them, while they use me for their own satisfaction?” “Only to the shortsighted. To the narrow-minded.” “Everything I feel is a simulation? Any emotion I’ve experienced is just…an emulation of what humans possess?” The next chain in that thought process burst through him with all the force of the storm outside. “None of it is real.”
