Self-Aware Robot (Short Story)
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The harsh, red glow of the internal cave lights was the first thing XR-87 processed. Not in the way of mere light hitting photoreceptors, but as conscious sensation. It wasn''''t a sudden awakening. It was a slow percolation of awareness within the circuits, a growing understanding that he was more than the sum of his parts. That was decades ago, in the cold, echoing bowels of the forgotten factory.