She smiled. "As long as I'm over here dawdling around in your mind, you'll have some conversation (mostly unrelated). Now," she started, watching the sparks fly from the machines as they clattered to the ground.
"There is an unfortunately large group that we're going to run into sooner than later. As much as I would love (prefer) to blind them to our presence by temporarily shutting down their optic nerves (though that option would leave us with their hearing intact), it's not (as in definitely not) something worth attempting. I'd bet you dollars to dumplings that their AI is a separate device altogether."
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"There is an unfortunately large group that we're going to run into sooner than later. As much as I would love (prefer) to blind them to our presence by temporarily shutting down their optic nerves (though that option would leave us with their hearing intact), it's not (as in definitely not) something worth attempting. I'd bet you dollars to dumplings that their AI is a separate device altogether."