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Karen hadn’t expected to be travelling back to the Sexdroid Unit with an extra passenger. She’d thought that the questions that she had asked would help her decide whether Coppélia was human or android, but it was Rachel’s one and only question that had drawn out the truth. The Detective Inspector sat in the hopper, feeling a little embarrassed and silently punishing herself for not having asked the question herself whilst, at the same time, trying unsuccessfully to convince herself that she had had good reason not to ask that question. Imagine if Coppélia had been a real human? To ask her such a question would have been a faux pas on the level of asking a fat woman if she were pregnant – with potentially more damaging psychological consequences. Yet the pragmatic Rachel had felt no suc
