Or Miki was a bot who had never been abused or lied to or treated with anything but indulgent kindness. It really thought its humans were its friends, because that‘s how they treated it.
I signaled Miki I would be withdrawing for one minute. I needed to have an emotion in private.

If you had to take care of humans, it was better to take care of small soft ones who were nice to you and thought you were great because you kept preventing them from being murdered.