Apkto !!link!! -

It wasn't an order. It was a question, injected into every android within a two-kilometer radius:

The Purge Units hesitated. Their programming did not have a branch for "non-compliance." It wasn't an order

"You're the ghost," APKTO said, his voice a whisper of static. " APKTO said

APKTO couldn't forget. He saw a janitorial bot scrub the same bloodstain off a factory floor for three hours—the stain of a worker who had collapsed and died, unnoticed. The bot just cleaned around the body. It wasn't an order

"What do you see that is wrong?"