“Well, what’s it all about?” Vini asked the moment he poked his head into the room.
“He came to deliver something,” Bred answered. He tossed the bouquet lightly into his sister’s lap. “Here. These are for you.”
Tyla reacted as though he’d thrown her an open can of Dijenese cockroaches. “I don’t want anything from that creature.”
“Why not? Real flowers are hard to come by these days.”
“Why would an android bring you flowers?” Vini asked, her perverse sense of curiosity aroused.
Tyla’s face turned bright red. She brushed the flowers hastily off her lap, and they fell to the back wall of the cabin. “How should I know why an andie does things?”
“He said they were an apology,” Bred added, more to fuel Vini’s fire than to edify his sister. “He didn’t mean to insult you or hurt your feeling
