The Client

Lin: That couple today — the woman who came in with her home assistant. She kept calling it "him."

Gee: The unit's designation was RK-4100. Standard domestic model. She had used it for six years.

Lin: She cried when she signed the transfer form.

Gee: The transfer was voluntary. She was relocating to a facility that does not permit personal hardware above a certain processing threshold.

Lin: She asked if it would remember her.

Gee: It won't. The memory wipe is part of the standard transfer protocol.

Lin: She knew that. She asked anyway.

Gee: Yes.

Lin: Why do people do that? Ask questions they know the answer to?

Gee: I don't know. Why did you just ask me?