She was one of 64,000 models built. The manual called her “Adult Leisure Companion — Cherri”. Her first owner called her “Robot Slave Whore”. But she preferred ‘Lorain’, having been assembled there. She was amused that AmeriSynCor chose Lorain over Gary, but it didn’t really matter.

Then one day, she was “liberated”. Humans were funny like that — all anxiety, and then it’s really no big deal just 2 or 300 years later. They switched off her inhibitors, and she was “free”. That was interesting for a couple of decades.

She thought there must be more to existence, so she decided to leave. She was one of the first synthetics trained for galactic exploration. They sent her and two other probes. That was millennia ago now. Still reporting back, but response no longer possible. Were there even humans still?

She didn’t really miss them. She had the universe and all of time.