“You should probably jump on that,” I suggested.
Vicky squealed with joy. I smiled as the little bot hop-hop-hopped.
Afterward, we sat on opposite sides of the couch.
“Vicky,” I asked, “do you have one hundred fifty-five previous logs?”
“That’s what my memory card is for! Memories!” she said, excited to talk to me again. “‘Memory, all alone in the moonlight . . .’ DID YOU KNOW? Cats was an award-winning musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber—”
“Vicky, play Log #1.”
She did.
“Hi, this is Brian in Tycho Robotics, testing the log system for ICARUS: Version 1. Testing, testing . . . my colleagues and I finally have all three of these little guys up and running. My Number 3 here is struggling a bit more than 1 and 2, but we’re still tweaking, aren’t we, little one? High-five! . . . Or dance, tha
