Crumbling roofs were all anyone would see if they stayed in the ruined residential area of F-city. A year has passed since Mirror and Imago lived together in their roofless two-floor home. They are the life of the party, at least for most of their robot community. Mirror is an exceptionally versatile program enhancer, both in readjusting programs to reroute them and make their flow smoother or new ones such as inputting emotional responses.
Life was satisfying to the machines left to die by humans years ago. That doesn’t mean there are things the humans left that retained or the organically comprehensive androids are curious enough to research about them. It includes tradition left unexplained and culture once nurtured but replaced by modern innovations. Thus as anyone would, none would miss something forgotten or be never there in the first place.
That is why recorded history in F-city is valued and, at the same time, tampered with extensively. Neither androids
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