Roy looked to the robot, readjusting focus with his eyes, the robot’s pause and present inaction causing him to wonder if a lack of hearing or ability to track events in real-time was somehow, perhaps, a previously unrealized consequence of his collapse induced haze, the robot –contrary to Roy’s present speculation– having in that moment shifted its direct attention inward to the focused intention of ‘Closing’ the Analytical Job Prioritization queue; the secondary pass of its quantum analytics having come up… empty handed in its resolution of the ‘Null Result,’ further classifying the whole endeavor, to the robot’s absolute ‘robot anguish’ as an ‘Outstanding’ task; regardless how proficient at making transparent and aesthetically c...

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