“Fine by me,” Roy said, shaking his head in an effort to try dispelling the lag and what felt like a physical barrier in his mind, “It’s just… it seems to me you’re wasting time that you could be utilizing to prepare whatever it is you are trying to… ‘prepare’ in that bowl there.”

Roy began to crack a slow smile, the last thing the robot would want to be accused of doing was wasting its time, even if ‘Time’ by the robot’s own philosophy was just an arbitrary human created concept it wasn’t actually constricted to; regardless how agreeable the notion was with the ‘System Time’ its Bios and Operating System were regulated by. But if Roy was playing by and mindful of such ascribed rules and regulations, then the robot...

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