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The Fall of the Automatous Abbey by Maria Haskins

ShortStory 1,593 words

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Long after the final attack on the Automatous Abbey, long after the enemy, repugnant and resplendent in their flesh and blood, had fired their array of weapons at the undefended structure, long after the Abbess had sounded the klaxons and evacuation alerts, and long after the remaining wreckage had lost the use of its engines and had begun tumbling through the cloudy tendrils of the nebula, bot CL-451, also known as Seal, kept cleaning the floors of the Abbey as it always had.

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