Salt swings open the door before I even turn to it. He's got a face like thunder, and when he sees that I've bought along somebody else, he groans with tire.

  "I was going to come back with something sarcastic and mean that insults you just as much as you insulted me, but I think one question is more important--What are you doing now?" He asks, and he sounds like he's done with seeing me causing trouble.

   "Going to overthrow the castle." I say simply. "Your robot buddies killed one of our friends. We're pretty pissed off. I wanted to know if you wanted to come and kill people with us?"

    "I'd rather stab myself in the throat, but killing a robot is harder than it looks." Salt disappears from the door for a moment, and when he comes back, he's holding what looks like wire cutter. "I have nothing else to do. Sure. Why not?"

   As we start to walk through the hallway, I can't help but turn to Eli and Orion. "Bet you're glad I went and befriended him now, huh?"

   They both sigh at me.

    And we walk down the hallway, weapons at the ready, following the sounds of a commotion and robots' last cried for help before their voice boxes crackle to a halt.