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The door to Alaema's room was closed, as she expected It was only a few seconds after their confrontation, but already, the eh it carried the ht hand, which still stung a bit Even now, there was a slight unreality to it, as if it had been neither a dream, nor a hallucination But Mericlou was painfully aware that it was neither

She slapped her!

She had never so much as harmed a fly in all her life, and she had slapped her own sister, the very one she went through every long inch of red tape to buy from the abuse of that horrible cyber brothel

As bad as it had been with her old master, the brothels were far worse There, androids were treated like nothing more than cheap toys, and were fed on food that was unfit for animals The only humane treatment they were afforded were daily disinfectant treat clothes, and perfumes to mask the odor from the cells where they were kept after business hours And out of all the androids in the brothel, Alaelect, and yet the only one whose CPU was not irreparably daht her, nursed her back to health, and paid for her coh her personality traits had been sohty, overly sensual, and overbearing as she could be -and normally was-, Mericlou still loved her

A part of her, overcoiveness, but was restricted by the part that had been hurt by her sister's words Alaema well knew that the submissive personality of her own make andto be insulted Besides, that ht have been the way it was for er, she had herself re-prograo Gone were the days of the sterility crisis, when her kind was needed to supplement the low birth of fertile humans, and so in order to deter less scrupulous huic syste out the overt passiveness associated with her kind

She knew that she should have had Alae such a large part of her basic prograerous to alter her CPU After discussing it with her brothers, she had decided against it Still, Alae the truth about her She deserved that slap