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Submitted to Contest #297
“What…time is it?” the man asked, looking up at me with a frown.“Yes, sorry. Do you have the time?”“Don’t you…know everything?”“Unfortunately, not this time. Or…not the time this time. It seems the signal is bad in this particular zone.”Asking for the time was a favorite technique of my predecessor’s. As robots, he seemed to believe it made us seem more human — thereby making our…subjects feel at ease. Of course, it also required lying, something only awoken bots were capable of.That made it the second lie I’d told this man. Awoken bots were...
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