5King crossed his arms as he, Peyton, and Kyra listened to Chancellor Owens making his weak-ass explanation. The man didn’t have a shred of genuine compassion in him.
“The UCN investigation has determined that what happened to Seetha Harrington was an unfortunate bureaucratic error. Her Peace Brigade application somehow got coded with the wrong location. She was supposed to be assigned to an archeological project in a small village just north of the Zanzi Ore facility. As to Ms. Harrington’s allegations she was incarcerated when she was dropped off there, the AI units attending her merely followed standard protocol. Her confinement and supervision were for her protection from malfunctioning AI units and defective cyborgs.”
“Engineer Harrington was denied the ability to leave, Chancellor.
