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say,” he began and looked past her to see if she had been followed. “Where exactly did this happen? Was it a bunch of them or was it just one?”
    “Just one man and a bunch of insensitive bystanders, and no, I didn’t get to see his face before he socked me. But don’t you worry about little old me, Sal, I’ll be okay. Though I could use a new personal device since mine was stolen from me.”
    “Well that was smart of him,” he said with a smile. “Should be nothing to track him down now.”
    “Slow down, hero, we have bigger problems, remember? Plus, what are you doing here? Shouldn’t you be back in Washington?”
    “Yeah,” Sal replied, “I’ve been ringing your device. But now I know why you haven’t been picking up. I wanted you to know that I was back in town. I have some news about that woman.”
    Tricia unlocked her apartment, threw the handbag on a table, and then motioned for Sal to come inside.
    “You always travel that heavy when you’re going out for drinks?” he asked, but she ignored the question and walked over to the refrigerator to make an icepack. “I think we should place some guards outside so that you have some protection while you’re staying here, Bonnie.”
    You mean babysitters to prevent me from running away , Tricia thought, but she looked at Sal and nodded.
    “So the woman, who is she?” Tricia asked, walking over to sit on the loveseat next to the couch. She placed a bag of crushed ice on her bruised jaw and delighted in the numbing effect it had.
    “It was some kind of android Ronald took around with him. That’s why she was standing there looking all creepy in the video. I guess he rigged it to help him, probably to throw you off. All we know is that he went inside with her but was the only one to come back out. When we went to your house that night, Bonnie, I didn’t see an android. That’s what has me cold, like ice in my veins, right? The fact that she might still be in your house right now.”
    Tricia listened to him speak and decided that he was truly innocent. If Sal were in on the cover-up of Bonnie’s murder, he would have known that she was an android and would not have told her any of this. That android in the video was her old body, possibly stolen, wiped, and taken to the scene to begin the process of replacing Bonnie.
    “What do you think about androids, Sal?” Tricia asked and the detective shrugged dismissively.
    “They’re the pride of the era, what can I say. We’ve gotten them to the point where I can’t look at a video and know that what I am seeing is not a human being. That’s how frikken amazing these guys are, these droid builders and whatnot. They look like us, talk like us, hell—everything.” He had a 1,000 yard stare going on as he pondered this and then blurted out, “I think that they’re amazing!”
    “Would you have sex with one?”
    “You mean like a cyber-prostitute or full on fleshy android?” he asked. “That’s an odd question coming from you, Bonnie. I don’t know, that’s a little bit personal. How about we get back to this android that was inside your home when you were shot?”
    “No, I think you should answer my question, detective. I am in a really vulnerable position and I need to know that I can trust you. I've been through a lot and I'm finding that most of the people I thought I knew are not who they claim to be,” Tricia said.
    “And me answering questions about sleeping with androids will somehow prove my trust to you?”
    “No, it’s a process. You answer this question, and then I ask you another. When I’ve gotten enough data from you to make an informed decision, then I will know whether or not you are my friend,” Tricia said, crossing her arms defiantly.
    “Just like that, huh? Alright, sure. No, I wouldn’t sleep with an android, Bonnie. I’ll tell you why, because it’s against the law, that’s why.” He sighed, made a pinching motion with his fingers, and shook his hands with