"By accident! I thought he could take the data, but it fried his storage." She frowned down at him. "I should have routed it through something else, his memory's kinda shot anyway." She looked down, hiding her face for a moment, and he powered back up; he didn't fly away, but sat on her lap flapping his ears.

She paused. "Hey, you know, if you wanted to see that security cam footage, I could show you. Use him to put it on the TV, sort of thing."