I returned to my apartment one siku with my hair singed and much shorter than it had originally been at the beginning of the day. But I didn't care, not when I had finally built a robot!

We had worked on it for a year, and it was finished today. It was put on three legs and was shaped like an oval. It was originally meant to shoot out cake, but someone had accidentally switched the cake with bullets.

I got to name it~ after all, it was my birthday~ and I called them turrets. We were working on duplicates, and stash them away until we needed them.

I smiled as I plopped myself down on the couch. Aperture had been great for me. Cave had started giving me zaidi and zaidi opportunities for being great, including inviting me out for chajio, chakula cha jioni once. He didn't make a fuss when I read a science book under the table...

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The inayofuata day, when I went to a meeting with Cave, I heard something interesting.

"You know, we should start having humans come and do tests." Cave fiddled his thumbs as his suggestion hung in the air. A woman scientist named Rose looked around. "Well, would they be safe?"

Cave grinned. "No."

Later that day, Rose was fired for disagreeing with Cave.