I nodded without comment, and again found my opinion of Hugh shifting. He seemed to be honestly concerned about getting Bender out of Heaven’s River. If he was also interested in the AI issue, was that necessarily nefarious? Was I overreacting? Part of the problem was that I didn’t want to find out. It was a true-to-form Original Bob problem—a tendency to not want to deal with uncomfortable personal issues. I clearly had no replicative drift in that particular department.