MY WILD OBSESSION
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Her voice jumps an octave.
“how did y…,“
Just—tell me how to turn the damn thing off!”
I hear her scrambling, clicking something on her laptop.
“I’m searching… okay, okay… what brand? Describe it.”
I glare at the silver menace blinking on the floor.
“It’s small. Round. Black lens. And it follows me like a possessed Roomba.”
Cassie snorts.
“Girl, that’s a surveillance bot, not a camera toy. Why do you have that?”
“CASSIE!”
“Okay, okay! On the back there should be a tiny red light and a switch under it. If you flip it fast enough, it shuts down without sending a shutdown alert to the owner.”