The creature phased in.
It was a client and it had traveled through time.
It was also really weird.
Nothing like us.
SAB exited the building confidently.
Confidently, but slowly.
It wasn’t that SAB’s body was slow.
Its body was capable of great speed — and great strength — but while its artificial brain was capable of…
Everything around was white. No other colors anywhere.
There were two chairs, and then someone showed up and said:
- Take a seat.
They both sat down.
The drone covered the city, street by street, photographing and analyzing each and every bit.
It seldom needed to go back to base: solar panels on top, reliable equipment on the bottom, transmitters everywhere.