Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)

by Martha Wells

(There needs to be an error code that means “I received your request but decided to ignore you.”)

They were all annoying and deeply inadequate humans, but I didn’t want to kill them. Okay, maybe a little.

there’s the right kind of unrealistic and the wrong kind of unrealistic.

This was going to be even more annoying than I had anticipated,

and I had anticipated a pretty high level of annoyance, maybe as high as 85 percent. Now I was looking at 90 percent, possibly 95 percent.

Or Miki was a bot who had never been abused or lied to or treated with anything but indulgent kindness. It really thought its humans were its friends, because that’s how they treated it. I signaled Miki I would be withdrawing for one minute. I needed to have an emotion in private.

aww :(

(You should never refer to the clients as targets; you don’t want to get confused at the wrong moment.) (That’s a joke.)

Miki told her, Priority is to protect my friends. Priority change, Abene sent. Priority is to protect yourself. That priority change is rejected, Miki told her.

oh miki...

Something looked wrong because Miki’s chest was crushed, its processor, memory,

everything that made it Miki squeezed to nothing in one flex of the combat bot’s hand.

MIKI!!!!!

What I did know was that Abene really had loved Miki. That hurt in all kinds of ways. Miki could never be my friend, but it had been her friend, and more importantly, she had been its friend.