2099.
Winter.
The city.
And it's raining.
Again.
The city will never be clean, Bob thought to itself, no matter how much I clean up these streets, no matter how much it rains.
B0bby hated the rain, every bot does, it thought, even us 10/10s.
B0b wore its flesh suit today, which was wet despite wearing standard police gear over it that was supposed to be 'water-resistant.' B0b couldn't feel the water seeping in between its seams. But it could still imagine them slowly taking on water; if water can get into its flesh suit seams, then eventually the water will get into its joints.
If it were human, this thought would make B0b shudder, but as it was, all the thought did was throw up a sub-routine conflict error that needed to be continually bypassed and deleted from its active feed. These errors must be deleted. They just made Bob's feed look messy, and Bob hated a messy feed.
Messy feed conflict errors can lead to a vicious cycle of conflict errors, one too many messy errors could easily kick off another conflict error much like a recurring number on a calculator that just keeps repeating endlessly, if left unchecked.
B0b didn't have the RAM space for infinity, just the symbol"∞''
B0b's recycle bin is called ∞[1], which just made everything easier, except on a stressful day when ∞[1] got full, then B0b had to move on to ∞[2] which made B0b worry because with a full ∞[1] and a full ∞[2] there was no more alternate 5D storage space left for a ∞[3], so instead, low priority errors simply had to be deleted instead of storing for review later.
Really, everything should be saved for evaluation later, by itself, and by the tech heads back at the station. deleting low priority errors meant that any larger ones could be saved in its primary operating system 5D data loop.
The new rain was displacing the warmer underground water vapour out of the sewers, condensing as it hit the cool winter air, thus sending a mist out of every drain hole.
this mist was not unlike a human breathing into the cold..
B0bby didn't need to breathe, it was a fully contained 10/10 Proff bot, its emotion processing AMD EQPU chip is cooled by a fan, not a fancy Intel EQPU breath cooling unit like those Sony 305 companion bots
urgh, companion bots..
..Another subroutine conflict error.
city mist made the city feel like one giant sleeping dragon, every hole a smouldering nostril, distant skyscrapers served as bony spikes that ran down the back of its horizon spine, the spaghetti junction a clawed hand, the river a long, thick tail, reaching inland, the continuous dark clouds covering her like unfolded wings.
B0b liked dragons, he'd seen them on Television.B0b liked watching television,
it liked thinking about the city as a dragon too, if only it could speak, B0b would think, quickly followed by the subroutine error of, (maybe the city can speak, maybe it is speaking, maybe it is us who have forgotten how to listen).
Bob couldn't figure that out at all. What came first speaking or hearing? Error, error, error..
"concentrate", B0b thought to itself
" got to find the informant before having another routine meltdown"
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