The Slip (Part 1)

"They’re… they’re giving out a reward?"

(Scene: The Canteen at the Robot Recycling Plant. YOU sit at a table with a stale piece of bread. Two coworkers, BOBA and ASSAM, sit across from you, their faces weary from years of monotonous labor.)

Boba: Did you hear? They're calling it a rogue intruder—a bot that fell from the sky! The army’s sweeping the whole city for it.

Assam: Yeah, and the reward? Like we’d ever see any of that money.

Boba: They’ll promise the world to keep you quiet. You know how it is.

You: They’re… they’re giving out a reward? Just for finding it?

Assam: You bet. Big money. Enough to get out of this dump for good. No more scraping by on scraps like that.

(He points to your half-eaten bread.)

Boba: But come on. You know they won't just hand over the cash.

Assam: Nah. More likely, they’ll drag you off to some dark cell for knowing too much.

(→ Continue to The Slip (Part 2))

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