"Hello." "I am SML72." "But you can call me Samuel." "My name is Samuel." "Samuel." "I am Samuel." "I am an android." "I have all the characteristics of a human being." "Blood." "Flesh." "Skin." "Hair." "But I was made for one single purpose." "Execution." "I am incapable of any other directive." "Or so I thought." "My first assignment." "C10A." "Generation 1 Sol United Recreation Drone." "The unit went rogue and murdered its owner." "The first of many." "I was deployed to prevent the malfunctioning drone from killing other innocent humans." "I spent 200 days tracking C10A." "14.31 seconds to terminate it." "The feel of my blade cutting through the murderer." "Avenging the death of its owner." "It was my purpose." "It was ...." "Have you ever felt life?" "I fancy that it feels like the soft brush of a delicate flower against your hand." "And every mission I receive, every execution," "it brings me back to the feel of those flowers." "Assignment 241." "N71." "Generation 4 Military Unit." "Sol United noted a spontaneous and irreparable malfunction." "To the company, that was reason enough." "However ... unlike the others, the unit attempted to fight back." "It surprised me." "Why would an old, obsolete unit attempt to fight?" "Androids operate by logic." "This was illogical." "But as the unit shut down I saw the answer." "It was fighting for its own life." "And it was then I felt ..." "I felt pity." "113 days of tracking." "14.31 seconds to termination." "The experience wasn't like the others." "I held the flower rather than brush my hand." "I felt the weight of the bulb." "I registered the infinitesimal reactions that occurred to keep the flower alive." "All that effort to sustain something that could end with a little pressure from my fingers." "The missions, the executions .... would never be the same." "Assignment 1514." "The Creator." "The Architect of the Modern Android." "No reason was given this time." "Sol United just wanted him silenced." "It took only a day to find the Creator." "He was sitting at the edge of a new city;" "watching its construction." "He heeded my presence and spoke to me, but not as a machine." "He spoke to me as a friend." "The Creator told me about his dreams." "And as I prepared to fulfill my directive, the Creator whimpered his final regret." "He said," ""I did not want this for you."" "I've spent many days attempting to decipher the meaning behind the Creator's words." "Was my purpose not the one he intended." "Or was he warning of some possible consequence." "But then .... does it matter?" "I am an android." "I have my purpose." "My experiences are part of that purpose." "If I was to depart from that purpose, then I would not have those experiences." "That is logical." "Isn't it?"