Science Fiction: Welcome to my Worlds

for the shift, but glowed dull red like overheated metal and the woman sagged to the ground. Something like a heat shimmer ran over her. For a second it looked as though she was covered with a layer of silvery liquid mercury, and then she wasn’t a woman anymore.

“A robot,” Nate breathed. A very good one too, from the look of it. A.I. robots were still very expensive. The Silverstones owned one that functioned as a maid and house cleaner at the Manor but it was nowhere near as sophisticated as this. He’d never even heard of anything like the human disguise he’d seen collapse. It could have been just a hologram, but he was sure he’d seen the robot settle as though it had a material, or at least a force field component. “Whoever you are, you certainly have interesting enemies.”

His slender feminine hands opened the blue door without his volition. There was no lock visible but the hands twisted, pressed and caressed the handle and area surrounding it in a series of moves too quick for him to entirely follow. There were five quick clicks in a row and a pressure in his head he hadn’t been consciously aware of abruptly ceased. Something more high-tech here than belonged on this world, he suspected. If he’d been here in his own body he was fairly sure he’d never have made it


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