I thought about poor dead Miki, who had wanted to be my friend. There was a 93 percent chance Miki had wanted to be everybody’s friend, but Miki had said to me “I have human friends, but I never had a friend like me before.” I said, “No. It’s not like that. Not like it is between humans.” Ratthi was still skeptical. “Is it? The Transport seems to think differently.” I said, “The Transport doesn’t know what the hell it’s talking about, plus it lies a lot, and it’s mean.”
