"Calm down,” the robot questioned with emphasis as Roy rounded the horn of the island in his continued effort to stay out of the robot’s reach, “I can’t be expected to calm down when I have no-”

"When you have no emotions,” Roy interrupted between breaths, completing the robot’s –presently– declarative statement with a rising tone, thereby transmuting it into an interrogative statement. Now he just needed to formulate a backup distraction for the robot by way of suggesting more unacceptable alternatives for what constituted a ‘peer;’ just in case it didn’t take focused issue with his presumed alteration of its intended verbalization, if the devilishly devised stratagem he just moments previous devised had any chance of being realized and not potenti...

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