Mari behind him, David opened the
door, holding the broom handle in one hand.
As if that’s
going to do anything… Besides, what could he do? Try and beat up a woman
after sneaking into her…
Secret
base?
Business?
Whatever. And there she
was, standing in front of David, wearing a stylish business suit,
shoulder-length red hair framing a smiling face. She was wearing glasses, and
by her feet, the spider prowled, looking up at them and making little wiggling
motions with its metallic frame.
Then it looked at the broom handle and growled.
Holy shit. David
carefully put the broom handle up against the wall. “Nice…”
“See, O12, they’re not
hostile, you just scared them.”
The spider looked up at the woman and then wiggled again.
“Is that going to… eat
us?” Mari asked, coming out from behind David, pressing her body into the wall.
She was staring at the spider, face pale.
Mari really hated
spiders.
“Eat you? O12? No, O12
is a good spider,
aren’t you…” She put her hand out. The
spider looked up at her…
And then flopped over on its back, all eight limbs in the air.
The woman put her hand down and rubbed the bottom, the robot wiggling in…
“Is she giving a robot a belly rub?” Mari asked.
