He said, “Why don’t you want us to look at you?” My jaw was so tight it triggered a performance reliability alert in my feed. I said, “You don’t need to look at me. I’m not a sexbot.” Ratthi made a noise, half sigh, half snort of exasperation. It wasn’t directed at me. He said, “Gurathin, I told you. It’s shy.” Overse added, “It doesn’t want to interact with humans. And why should it? You know how constructs are treated, especially in corporate-political environments.” Gurathin turned to me. “So you don’t have a governor module, but we could punish you by looking at you.” I looked at him.
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