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    What better way for an executive to kick off her well-deserved vacation than with a smooth new set of skin? But this routine cosmetic surgery doesn't end up going quite the way Sterling planned.

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    If ghosts were real, they would be registered as an extreme threat to clients, and the company would have given me a module on how to kill them. Whatever was in the collapsed mineshaft, there was no way it was a dead human.

    But it might still be an as-yet unknown threat.

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    99.99999% of the time, threats to a SecUnit's clients can be addressed with some amount of physical force, anywhere on the sliding scale from standing between two combatants to shooting the threat full of holes.

    The other 0.00001%, though? There's nothing about that in any of the learning modules.

    (Or: Murderbot tells a ghost story.)

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    21 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 9

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    This "fic" is a collection of my drabbles participating in the Murderbot Drabble December 2025 writing challenge. Each chapter will be a day of writing. I'm looking forward to challenging myself!

    Audience and warnings may change depending on chapters added.

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    20 Jun 2026

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    chapter 14 did it lol

  4. Public Bookmark 66

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    I sent ART the edited file along with a snapshot of my recent haptic sensor logs, which mostly looked like [deleted] [deleted] [deleted].

    ART took a moment to process that. Your difficulty with physical touch extends beyond merely touching or being touched by humans, it surmised.

    I guess, yeah. I bristled at calling it a ‘difficulty’: it wasn't hard to touch things, I just didn't like doing it. But I had a system for dealing with that, so whatever, it wasn't an issue.

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    Or, ART wants to make Murderbot comfortable. (And yes, it would like to feel that for itself, too.)

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    20 Jun 2026

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    "What's the Aphelion?"

    From the pile of discarded files, ART plucked one and trimmed it down for me, just to the salient bits. Even ignoring all of the technical stuff about AI crèches and pair-bonds and artificial empathy development left me with the simple answer "It's complicated." And that complication was about to be tangible, and something I would have to personally deal with.

    "You have a twin."

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    The universe is a big place, but sometimes happenstance brings two people together after years apart.

    And sometimes unfortunate SecUnits get stuck in the middle of family reunions for asshole bot pilots.

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    20 Jun 2026