CIRCLE WITH A DOT

The Preservation Alliance has a weird thing about food and medical care and other things humans need to survive being free and available anywhere.

(Despite the weapons and heavy gear, they were amateurs.) (Amateurs are terrifying.)

I was having an emotion, and I hate that.

Ignoring stuff is always an option, up until it kills you.

She wasn’t there, obviously, being busy betraying her clients. (When I said I didn’t like humans working security you thought I was just being an asshole, right?)

I said, “You need to sleep.” She yawned. “Okay, third mom.”

(Corporations didn’t actually invent space and planets, despite the patents the company had tried to file.)

(The lesson was: if you’re going to fuck with something bigger and meaner than you, use a quick targeted attack and then run away really fast. (This is the way I always try to operate, too.)

pretending you were asking for more information was the best way to try to get the humans to realize they were doing something stupid.

Yes, talk to Murderbot about its feelings. The idea was so painful I dropped to 97 percent efficiency.