"What? No," it says, its Act Like A Human code making it blink. "It's just monitoring."

It was weird, how so many of the people didn't know what drones were. Or were confused by what they were doing. Even on Preservation, where the humans didn't like to have cameras everywhere - they kept going on about 'privacy', or whatever - they still knew what security cameras were.

"I'm a Security Consultant," it says. "The drones help."