![]() ![]() “Even without your principle armament, I bet you could waste planets if you wanted to-” She brought the yellow and brown device closer to her face. Sma was aware of Skaffen-Amtiskaw glowing red just behind her. “I’m not being rude it’s a good bonding procedure.” “Just for chumminess’ sake,” the little thing said, yawning wide and blinking. Sma stopped, detached the creature from her shoulder with one hand and stared it in the face. “Can I cuddle up with you when you sleep?” Do we stop gliding or swimming because of this?” “Yet birds fly better than we do, and fish swim better. “But have you ever been gliding or swum underwater?” “Well, you may ‘hmm’ as you wish,” the woman said, approaching a translucent hologram of the half-completed ship, where a few other construction workers were standing, pointing inside the model and talking. The fact a machine could have done it faster doesn’t alter the fact that it was you who actually did it.” ![]() You see one of these big mothers sail out those doors for the first time, heading for deep space, three hundred people on board, everything working, the Mind quite happy, and you think, I helped build that. “Can’t machines build these faster?” he asked the woman, looking around the starship shell.“Why, of course!” she laughed.“Then why do you do it?”“It’s fun. ![]()
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