“Why are you looking at me like that?” he asked suddenly, startling me.
“Ah, no reason,” I said, not knowing why I was startled. “Come on, let’s get you dressed.”
He followed me obediently. I stopped in the room and looked at him again.
“Monty,” I hesitated, “I once read a very old book in which there was… there was someone like you. And every part of his body was just as functional as a human’s. What is the case with you?”
“Please narrow down your question. I don’t understand it.”
He was looking at me, and suddenly I was struck by the purity and innocence of his gaze. He was an android, alien to all human moral fluctuations, foreign overtones and understatements. It was necessarily to be blunt with him, or else it’s better to say nothing at all.”
“Do you know anything about human se
