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In the far future, the robot shepherd of the last server farm on Planet Earth begins to question his existence… Shepherd It is 3880 of the Common Era and I am the last Robot Shepherd on Earth. There have been others, but they either left with the Star Wanderers of the last hundred years, the Great Escape, or shut themselves …
Bain and Shi Xin sit next to each other, trying to remain still. Waiting for Hunter has become a meaningless phrase, a distant hope evaporated into random sounds. They cling to the knowledge that Hunter has promised to return, but if he doesn’t the Service Robot seems persuaded to consider their plight. Bain’s weary eyes fall across the short length …
Shi Xin and Bain sit slumped against the coffee cart, surrendering to their endless wait for Hunter’s return. The light of the long departing suns is finally replaced by the unsettling breaths of night so the service bot has turned itself into a pale android torch. The glow seems unnatural in the ancient walls of the cave, but it provides …
Waiting still for Hunter, Shi Xin and Bain have grown used to studying every detail of the cave entrance that effectively holds them as prisoner. Their kindly jailor, the service bot with its curiously vintage coffee cart has become more amenable over time, certainly more so than the rabble of greedy traders who slur between alcohol and gambling in the …