Chapter 12
The Tower of London seemed busy, even though it was empty. A gleaming spaceship hovering above, thousands of people outside, press storming the place and being kept out, and actual tanks forming a perimeter.
Teddy the ship’s Avatar scoffed at all that. “Bah! This is what you call security? A waste of matter, you guys are.”
Guillermo scratched his nose and thought what to say. “Excuse me, but who are you exactly? I’m afraid my briefing was very last-minute.”
Teddy looked up from Guillermo’s knee. “I’m the ship’s avatar.” It pointed up, towards the spaceship.
“Right,” Guillermo said, clicking his tongue. “So you fly the ship?”
“No, stupid, the Mind flies the ship. I am the Mind inside this android body.”
“So you’re not the Mind?”
“I am the Mind. And I am the Avatar you see
