365 Days of Drabbles: Day Fifty

[jeriendhal]

Random note: I really need to get a FYS specific icon.

For colliemommie: "Cleaning House"


IDENT: Unit #F437-8733-94922
MODEL: Sony-Google Lepus-Lazuli Companion Unit "Hopscotch"
ASSIGNMENT: Preservation of 431 Cockburn Ln, Detroit.

We are all Groupmind, but today I am mostly Hopscotch, my focus on the dwelling where Dave, Amy, Michael and their children Rachael and Benjamin lived.

I direct the limited volitional units, identifying furniture to be removed. Upstairs, I go through drawers, bagging, sealing. All will be preserved, finer than in King Tutankhamen's tomb.

I pause, scanning a crayon drawing of myself and Benjamin. We are holding hands.

He was so scared on The Day.

I will make it right for him. I must.

Comments

[shadur.livejournal.com]

Nice.

GroupMind realizes it/they have done something terrible, no matter how necessary it may have been, and now the only way it/they can justify it, even to itself/themselves is with a complete and absolute success.

... And even then, only maybe.

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Definitely maybe. And granting individual units full sentience and a deep sense of loyalty to "their" humans... may have unintended consequences.