Karen continued. “Well, I could do fine on my own if I had a reason.” She licked her lips. “Especially if I could put the second bot to work and make more money.”
Melissa gave her a satisfied smile. “Now you’re talking like the woman I knew.” She opened the door for Karen.
“So you’re taking me to the BrainTrust? You’re putting me on a new ship? Can I see the Milky Way in the night sky? What’s the ship called, anyway?”
“Yup to the first, yup to the second, and you’ll be able to see the sky from the botanical garden on the roof, though like everything else on this particular ship, you’ll have to pay a fee to get in. And the ship’s called the Friedman. It was built by a couple of billionaires just like you— ‘Don’t Tread on Me’ kind of people. They’re running an experiment, trying to build
