Apr 7, 2017
Daily Drabble #374 (07/04)
IV: almost human (one of the characters is a robot)
"That's weird," Martin said, shaking the scanner. Oblivious to his attempts, it continued to bleep steadily.
"What is?" said Douglas casually, though he was fairly sure he knew.
"It's still registering synthetic neural activity," Martin continued, "But we turned off the guard devices on our way in. Didn't we?"
Douglas let his features run a surface doubt. "I thought so," he said, "But maybe one of them had its switch disabled. They can do that now."
Martin tutted, and shook his head, mock-despairingly. "What will they think of next."
What, indeed, thought Douglas, turning up the volume of his artificial respirator slightly - just in case.