Chapter Forty-One
Six hours later, small fleets of Emma-controlled drones prowled each of the domes making up Chang’e City.
In Erik’s hotel room, her holographic form stood in the center of dozens of projected visual feeds provided for the consumption of Erik and Jia, and she’d also routed the feeds to their PNIUs for more personal control of the massive amount of incoming data.
“During all those years I was saving money in the service,” Erik began, “I never thought I would use any of it for something like this.”
“You just spent a lot of money.” Jia smirked. “You could have bought another flitter for that much. We could go find a male AI in some lab for Emma.”
“My female characteristics are mostly for your ease,” Emma replied. “I’m not organic. Your biological concepts don’t apply to
