Story so far
While Mordecai reads Anne of Green Gables to Ruby in the Saferoom, the cleaner bot hovers nearby and also appears to be listening to the story.
It is a small detail Carl notices in passing, and part of what convinces him not to break the moment.
Appearance
A small hovering maintenance drone, drifting close to the table and holding still.
Role
Silent third member of the saferoom's last quiet scene.
Relationships
Ruby — Shares the story with her.
Earlier in this series
Also appears in books you've already read — spoiler-safe to their endings:
Sources — 8 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 6
- The safe room's petulant tidying drone, suspected by Donut of plotting against her charge pillows.
Chapter 9
- Ceiling-mounted saferoom cleaning drone that beeps disapprovingly at the chowder mess and the planned soaking.
Chapter 10
- Automated guild cleaner whose beat excludes the main guild room, letting stray tinsel survive there.
Chapter 20
- Household cleaning automaton that has been acting visibly stressed lately, per Carl.
Chapter 37
- The personal space's cleaning robot, which beeps at Carl and Donut for tracking mud and blood across the floor.
Chapter 49
- A hovering saferoom cleaning robot driven to furious squealing by the spellbook's black goo.
Chapter 78
- White-painted cleaner bot slurping blood in the surgical theater, snatched into Carl's inventory mid-jump.
Chapter 82
- Hovers beside Mordecai and Ruby in the saferoom, apparently listening to the story too.