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Summary
I was fully dressed by the time One arrived. I stayed near my cubicle, watching as it set its four drones into standby before making my way over. Carefully, I grasped its damaged arm and turned it towards me. I pretended to not notice how it flinched at the contact even though I felt a sharp pang of disappointment and sorrow. One hadn’t reacted to my touch this way since we first started working together. This was how it reacted when a human touched it, not when I did. Not a part of its own systems.
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