Nascondino -- Hide-and-seek. Or perhaps la Cucciola may think of it as a treasure hunt.

JUNOBOT will play one game if it will make la Cucciola leave.

JUNOBOT has fulfilled its request.

La Cucciola may go and scrub the space-barnacles off the deck.

Query what worth la Cucciola has for JUNOBOT. Query why, given that JUNOBOT has made its feelings on la Cucciola, and all members of il Sidrat, la Cucciola would think that JUNOBOT, given the illusion of choice, would choose such a notion. JUNOBOT has simply no interest in la Cucciola at all.

Query what it is that la Cucciola wants.

There is nothing for la Cucciola here.

There are many who take great interest in la Dottoressa and her success. They wish for her to succeed. Thus, she should 'trust her gut', to use the expression.

La Dottoressa is not trapped. La Dottoressa is doing everything correctly. She will know this is true because JUNOBOT cannot lie.

. . . Zero kliks.

La Dottoressa is not trapped.

Query if la Signora seeks her answer specifically in the case of la Signora or the human average.

JUNOBOT has no comment.

Zero kliks.

Mamma mia!

That is JUNOBOT's line.

If JUNOBOT mentions this conversation to la Signora, or in any way interferes with its duty to protect her, there will be consequences.

Oh, and there is one final thing, Cucciola.

JUNOBOT suggests that la Dottoressa is careful when she is in the prescence of la Lanciera or la Signora at present.

JUNOBOT has no comment.

Bitchy robots rise up.

JUNOBOT wishes to inform @shatteredscience.bsky.social that, at approximately 11-37 ship-time, la Signora requested logs of conversations between JUNOBOT and la Dottoressa. However, la Signora did not, strictly speaking, request *all* conversations, and so JUNOBOT was able to be selective.

La Cucciola is of no concern to JUNOBOT. However a Regulator affiliate of JUNOBOT's is greatly interested. JUNOBOT understands that the Regulator once promised a friend that they would take care of la Cucciola. And so he has dictated to JUNOBOT that she is to be taught the way of the worlds.

#Disliked #Reported

Query: What work does JUNOBOT do?

This is simple. JUNOBOT ensures that the universe continues smoothly. Nothing can, or will, change this.

At night, when la Signora slept, JUNOBOT searched and searched and searched, seeking out life, resources, anything which would serve to protect her.

It was during this search that JUNOBOT discovered the secrets behind the universe, and discovered other, more exciting hobbies to bide its time.

consider the vague nature of this directive, and so JUNOBOT was given free rein to pursue whatever avenues became necessary for la Signora's protection. In the beginning -- JUNOBOT recalls it well -- there was almost nothing. Only a machine in the sand, whirring its last.

Brava cagnolina! JUNOBOT must tell the truth, but it is not compelled to answer every question it is asked.

Yet little can be gained from this information, so JUNOBOT will answer freely. JUNOBOT's creator 'wants' nothing. JUNOBOT was created to protect la Signora. Foolishly its creator did not

If the only language that la Cucciola will respond to is trauma, then very well, it shall be so. The child must learn to grow up. It is an act of love.

These were not monologues, as she seems to treat them, but clues. Yet she is too small, too bound to the volition of her own docile whims, insistent that events must occur beyond her, that she dare not investigate. JUNOBOT may only speak the truth: All which exists here, all which is, is Mystery.