When the fire broke

- Madam, are you in imminent danger?

The woman did not expect such question from her robot.

- What? Why? Is something wrong?

- I am required to ask this of you: are you in imminent danger?

Bank Robbery

The man approached the bank counter and handed a note to the teller.

The teller read it.

It was clearly a robbery.

The teller slowly looked up to assess the robber.

Welcome

Corin understood perfectly well that he had to pay for his actions, but he nonetheless considered this penal transportation a bit too much.

It wasn’t the fact that he was being sent away, he really had always felt this way about the process, even before he had done anything wrong; being…

Reporting for duty

There wasn’t even a switch to turn the systems on: it simply knew that people had arrived and everything turned on by itself.

As the crew approached, everyone was silently scanned, and the machine now knew them inside out.

97

Even though his father had just died, he was trying to act as if everything was normal.

He had breakfast, picked up his backpack and went out. There were things to be done.

The weather and the distance made him wish he had a car.

Genetically Engineered

When they first arrived at Earth, they examined the whole planet and quickly became disgusted.

Not with violence, not with injustice, but with sex and the mating rituals of all the species on the planet.