Although
my visit with the humans was insightful, it did nothing to bring me any closer
to finding President Aron’s killer. I realized that as I walked into his office,
my new office, the next morning.
As
I walked toward the desk, I recalled the way President Aron was sitting on the
edge of his desk. He was sitting there
as if he were speaking to someone who was sitting in a chair; someone he was
very familiar and friendly with. There is
no way that could have been a human.
In
my time working for President Aron, I have never seen him speak casually to anyone, not
even his own bot mate. Who could have visited the president and
possibly killed him?
I
decided to call Mia into the office to find out if she might know a little more
about who the president may have developed a close relationship with.
“How
are you holding up?” I asked when she
walked in.
“I cannot believe that he is gone. I
keep expecting to get a phone call from him, demanding that I get to work early.”
“Yes,
me too,” I say sighing. “Please have a
seat for a moment.”
Mia
sat down as instructed.
I continued, “ As you
may know, I have taken it upon myself to investigate
the nature of the president’s murder.”
“Good,
because from what I understand, the police have gotten absolutely no
where.”
“Yes, they still insist that the murderer is a human.”
“What? And you do not think so? I mean given the human’s inferior
intelligence, I know it seems impossible, but there is no way that a bot would have done
this.” Mia insisted.
Mia
continued,” I mean what would a bot have to gain by murdering the president?”
I could see that Mia’s system was feeding her a lot of emotional
responses. I gave her a few moments to
calm down.
Finally,
I continued,” Mia did you happen to notice the way that the president was
sitting at the edge of his desk…as if he were casually talking to
someone.”
“Yes, but what does that have to do with anything?”
“Has
he ever sat down casually while addressing you?
Or even Priscilla?”
“Well…no.”
“He had to have been talking to someone that he had developed a fairly close relationship
with. Can you think of who that could have been?”
“Well…maybe
Amira. With her being the head of the military, they
had to meet often to discuss military strategies…but their meetings were very
formal, at least in front of me.”
“Amira definitely has
motive, but I do not think that she is who we are looking for. She hated President Aron so much after his
press conference, that I think she would actually admit it if she had killed
him. Can you think of anyone
else?”
“The only other person I can think of is Lily.”
“Lily?” I said very surprised to hear her name. “What was the nature of their relationship?”
“Well,
Lily often acted as a
liaison, representing the Science department.
I mean, you saw how angry Chas became that time he and president Aron met. Sometimes Chas would send Lily to represent him and
the rest of the science team instead of showing up himself.”
I
thought about that for a minute. I had
no idea that Lily
had been meeting with
President Aron. I wondered why I was not aware of the
meetings. “Thank you Mia. You can go now,” I said distracted by this
new information.
Although
this was a pretty good lead, there was no way that I could accuse Lily of anything without
confirming that she was the most likely suspect.
There
was one other person that I could think of who would know a lot about President
Aron and his close
relationships.
I
decided to question his bot mate Priscilla…
…and
I knew just where to find her.
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