Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)

by Martha Wells

I looked at myself in the mirror for a long time. I told myself I still looked like a SecUnit without armor, hopelessly exposed, but the truth was I did look more human. And now I knew why I hadn’t wanted to do this. It would make it harder for me to pretend not to be a person.

WOW...

I kept my sigh internal.

“Yes. It was … inconclusive.” It had been damningly conclusive, it just hadn’t had the revelatory effect I had been, stupidly, hoping for.

“I don’t make threats, I’m just telling you what I’m going to do.”