The door and windows were locked from the inside, yet the body lay cold on the lawn below. I could not help sinking into a pit of suspicion: this looked like a stage, as if someone had put all the signs out, for a murder mystery. But of course the body was cold: it did not belong to a human being, but to a machine, one of these AI sex dolls, at $20,000 a shot. Pat! They must have started one of those games, and she was so disgusted she opted out. That ignoble character was now hiding, in his shame – if he had any…

Inspired by Fandango’s Story Starter #201, and Three Things Challenge #MM65

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