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"Adam? Who is Adam?" asked Abby, taking a bite of her chocolate ice cream. She picked up another scoop with her spoon and slowly moved it toward her mouth as she awaited the younger girl's response. 

She flinched back, almost knocking her chair over, when something impossibly [i]blue[/i] appeared on top of the ice cream approaching her mouth. 

"Hello! My name is Adam. I am an artificial intelligence who can assist you in adapting to your new surroundings. How may I help you?"

Abby's jaw hung open as she stared at the little man displayed in a hologram. She blinked, then pulled herself back into the moment, feeling dumb. Why shouldn't glorified computers with bodies made of light walk around in a technologically advanced city like this?

"Where the hell [i]am[/i] I?" demanded Abby, her embarrassment fueling anger. 

"You are here, sitting at a table outside an ice cream shop in the middle of this city," said Adam, infuriatingly calm as he spouted useless information. 

"But [i]which[/i] city?" Abby asked, "And why are there people from different [i]time periods[/i] here?"

"This city," repeated Adam, "it doesn't have a name. People from a variety of eras are present because they were sent here."

Abby clenched her teeth, tempted to dump her sundae onto Adam's head. She refrained, mostly because she knew it wouldn't actually affect him. "But why were they sent here?" she asked.

"I cannot answer that question for you," said Adam.

Abby shot a frustrated glance at Cam. "How do you deal with him?" she asked. Focusing her attention back on Adam, she asked, "Are you good for [i]anything[/i]?"

Obviously unperturbed, Adam prattled, "As the AI in charge of monitoring this city, I am responsible for a wide variety of tasks, including -"

"You deal with him," said Abby, raising her eyebrows at Cam. She leaned her head against the table and buried it in her arms, clearly at wit's end. It was [i]so[/i] unfair that Adam could be so annoying, and there was nothing she could do to wipe that stoic expression off his goddamn face!