I had to withdraw back to my dark cubicle. I was having an emotion again. An angry one. Before Dr. Mensah bought me, I could count the number of times I sat on a human chair and it was never in front of clients. I don’t even know why I was reacting this way. Was I jealous of a human-form bot? I didn’t want to be a pet robot, that’s why I’d left Dr. Mensah and the others. (Not that Mensah had said she wanted a pet SecUnit. I don’t think she wanted a SecUnit at all.) What did Miki have that I wanted? I had no idea. I didn’t know what I wanted. And yes, I know that was probably a big part of the
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