Bero was her life raft, her last-ditch effort to survive the destruction her species had wrought. And he put her in the same category as Grippy, the robot. Not that she had anything against robots, but she’d at least expected the AI to acknowledge she was another sentient being. She counted Bero as a person in her own mind. This was why Ada Prime didn’t give their AI personalities when it came right down to it. You couldn’t trust the cold, metal bastards.
