All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)

by Martha Wells

I told Mensah through the feed that I wouldn’t speak aloud on the comm anymore. She tapped back an acknowledgment on the feed, and I heard her telling the others to get off my feed and my comm, that she was going to be the only one speaking to me so I wasn’t distracted. Mensah underestimated my ability to ignore humans but I appreciated the thought.

Sometimes humans can’t help but let emotion bleed through into the feed.