"FWLS17" - читать интересную книгу автора (A Future We'd Like to See)

"YAAAH!" W'ny yelled, diving for cover and blocking his
eyes. "Geez, who are you three and what are you doing in my lab
buck naked?!?"

Pause.

"Hello?"

Pause.

"You are awake, right? I don't know many people that can
sleep on their feet."

Pause.

"Come to think of it, you're standing where I parked my
prototypes yesterday. Are you them?"

Pause.

"I guess if you were, you wouldn't be able to talk back.
I'm coming out now... if you are alive, please respond..."

Pause.

Well, they must be the bots. Dunno HOW they got that way.
Very lifelike. Maybe Earl knows what happened.

Dial. Dial. Ring. "Earl?"

"Yeah?" the front guard answered in Yttian.

"Did any shifty-looking-redecorators show up last night?"

"What, you didn't order any?"

"Nope."

"Well, some mechanic and a fashion consultant showed up.
The supervisor gave them clearance. Something wrong down there?"

"Other than the three naked humans in my lab?"

"Hey! Alright! 'bout time you got back in the dating
scene. Whatever happened to that Shelia chick?"

"Not now, Earl. Has anybody been messing with my project?
I mean, I was keeping it sort of a secret until now."

"I didn't even KNOW you were doing a project. Maybe the