Chapter six“Boss? Wake up call.”
Xyl yawned hugely and flailed one hand out of the covers trying to push the voice away, but as Wally didn’t actually physically exist except as several gigabytes of code in the WorkMate’s system, it was a useless gesture. “Time is it?” she mumbled from beneath the covers.
“3:32 AM. C’mon, boss. You already hit the Snooze button once.”
“Wally, have I ever told you that you’d look much better with pink fur?”
“Yeah, well, you’d be a lot less grumpy if you had more chips and less of that squishy gray stuff between your ears.”
Xyl humphed in annoyance and stumbled to the bathroom.
“Organics. Can’t live with them and can’t wipe the drives and start over,” Wally mused to himself.
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“Second verse, same as the first,” Xyl said half an hour later as she
