Connor jumps at the sudden sound, laughter being the absolute last thing he exoected. He expected a knife in his back before laughter. He whips around, staring at Narkus, LED circling yellow.

There it was again. Almost human, but not quite, but definitely not android reading. Markus laughing. Laughter was always awkward with androids, usually stilted and fake sounding.

But this didn't seem fake. It seemed real and how? How us the malfunction so pervasive?

The situation isn't helped as Fiona joins in on the laughter and Connor looked at her in betrayal. He frowned and then finally offered dryly. "You're not supposed to apologize if you don't mean it."