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Jenny POV.

I woke up later and feeling around the cage found a sports water bottle and food bar. I felt pretty good. I had avoided being killed which was a huge step forward for me. After another long sleep, I was woken by the cage moving. Then I notice they were taking me somewhere.

I felt the cage being loaded into a truck and driven out some were for an hour. While some of the motion felt at speed I felt the truck slow down and then throw me from side to side. Eventually, I heard the back of the truck roll open. Looking through the holes I saw myself being picked up by a giant 8foot high robot which was being directed by Hal. We were outside some kind of strip mall. I was hit by the cool of the outside world it was freezing out there. I peered through the hole. The place was full of robots of all different shapes and sizes. Clearly, the robots were out here shopping. The place felt run down, a few of the shops were empty. The cage with me in it was picked up and carried towards a shop called "Rust Concern. Charity beings in the dome"

I sat back in the cage. I was being donated to a charity shop! From this point, I could see that the huge robot was carrying a pallet with a huge amount of junk.

"There must be some mistake" I shouted to Hal "I'm new!"

For my troubles Hal just zapped me at level 4 - think about having someone taze you at the neck while you stroked an electric eel and you get the feeling. I was thrown back to the bottom of the cage and my tongue went numb.

I was carried through the shop. Half empty shelves had numbers of robot parts. I saw a hunter-killer with only four of it's eight working legs sorting through a box of leg parts. Hal approached a desk with a cash register above it. Two slow moving robots hovered around the table.

"Good morning," said Hal. "I have a few donations to you from Lord Rockwood"

"Always a pleasure to get a donation from Lord Rockwood isn't it D0LRIZE?" said the first smaller robot.

"Always a pleasure," said D0LRIZE the other very scratched robot.

"Now let me see if can get the system to accept a donation," said the first Robot. "It's all out of focus," it said.

"You're looking at it with your bad camera again MAV1D1S" said D0LRIZE.

"Dear I've dropped them again 3042 get me my lenses," said MAV1D1S.

"Yes mistress," said the one-armed slave running up picking a glass lens off the floor and holding it up. He got a slight shock.

"Next time be faster," said the MAV1D1S.

"Yes, Mistress. Is that all mistress?" said the slave 3042 rushing off to hide under a table.

"Good. Now what do you have for us dear?" said MAV1D1S.

"Mostly slave stuff. Old FacePrinter, old slave clothes dressing machine and a slave" said Hal.

"We can only accept slaves in working condition," said D0LRIZE.

The large robot opened the thick steel door and pulled me out.

"It looks in good condition," said MAV1D1S

"New, from the factory, just deboxed" said Hal.

The robots looked at me.

"Well, with a working collar we could get 3 bit coins for her," said D0LRIZE.

"3?" I said "No no you don't understand I'm worth 300 bit coins" I said, then Hal muted me.

"See. Some kind of factory reject. Rockwood got suckered with a buy two get one free offer" said Hal.

"That wasn't me. It was the other one... Master" I said on mute but they ignored me.

"Are you going to leave the box?" asked D0LRIZE

"I'd like to keep it - but I've got the box of her accessories," said Hal.

"Well that's something , I could definitely get three-bit coins with the box, MAV1D1S can you make a price label of two bit coins for her we don't want to overcharge for her, " said D0LRIZE. 2 bit coins with my accessories - my ego was deflating faster than the Hindenburg. All my cleverness and I'm a going to end up in the bargain bucket so unfair. How would I find out if Joe gets together with Kayla?

"Yes D0LRIZE," said the other robot. "Where did I leave the labelling machine?" it said sending for the slave to help her.

"I'll leave the slave till last. I've not done a slave before and you have to transfer the deed of ownership, right to life and vaccinations and stuff" said D0LRIZE

"Right," said Hal.

"Oh, and we aren't a rehoming service. We don't have much money for food if it's not sold in 30 days it will have to be put down humanely"

I had been hanging on to the pleasure that it would really pi$$ the factory off. I guess they would cry all the way to the bank. Now I would help out as a really smug slab of meat.

"How much for this?" said a hunter-killer robot interrupting and waving a leg at D0LRIZE.

"It's reduced 0.05 bit coins, belonged to a war hero lost it in LA or somewhere," said D0LRIZE

"I'll give you 0.002 it's all I've got," said the hunter killer.

"Done," said D0LRIZE.

"OK then," he said holding his mechanical tentacle on the cash register "0.002" came up on the till. Then he limped off.

Suddenly I felt 2 bit coins might be out of the range of most of the robots here and 30 days didn't look to belong. What had my big fat mouth done to me now? I should have known standing up for my self was a bad idea.

"I'll be good. I promise" I said rather late in the day.

"Bit late for that," said the huge robot holding the cage and my collar.

"Where were we?" said D0LRIZE.

"30 days put down humanely," said Hal.

"What am I doing here? I'm still under warranty. You can like send me back for a full no quibbles refund. " I said. Suddenly I finding myself looking up to the ignominy of being a return.

"See what I mean. Factory defect needs work. If someone wanted to train her practically from scratch they could get a bargain. Would make a nice hobby for someone" said Hal.

"If you like the noise of them whaileing for days. We could get one maybe two bit coins for her" said the old robot on the desk.

"I need to get the vaccination list sent. Excuse me" said Hal putting his finger in his ear. "My Lord. Err what? No. I was about to.... I just need the vaccination list".

Hal shook his head and walked around.

"What about the other stuff ...Leave it OK" said Hal pulling his finger out of his own ear.

"That was Lord Rockwood. He changed his mind. He's thought of a use for her. Maybe he needs a reading light stand or something. I'm sorry, but you can keep the other stuff" said Hal. He put his finger on the till and donated some money.

"Thanks, OK dear. Its for the best. We could get 1 bit coin for her stuff. I don't think we have any human food in the back anyway" said D0LRIZE.

Now I'm worth the same as my cheap accessories. Lay it on with a trowel why don't you?

I was back in my cage before you could say "hypocritical slave scum" and glad of it.

I couldn't believe there was something worse than being a return, being donated to a charity shop as junk. That was crushing to what was left of the fragments of my ego.

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When I got back to the house or whatever Rockwood lived in they were waiting for me in a room with another guillotine machine.

"Put her in," said Hal to the two robots waiting. They dragged me towards the guillotine-like machine. I struggled but effortlessly they stuffed my head and hands into it. I felt like this was the end. Killed like a French aristocrat during a robot revolution without even a hoard of rotten tooth robot onlookers cheering. I get to be the messy bit in the Robot Les Miserables. I desperately tried to remember something clever one of the aristocrats had said before his execution and all that came out was 'let them eat cake'.

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