Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)

by Martha Wells

Overse added, “Just remember you’re not alone here.” I never know what to say to that. I am actually alone in my head, and that’s where 90 plus percent of my problems are.

But this was the first time we’d had a real trail of evidence to follow, and right now it was hard to cling to the comfort of bitterness and pessimism.

(Confession time: that moment, when the humans or augmented humans realize you’re really here to help them. I don’t hate that moment.)