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Prometheus was starting to get big. When Sedge set up the talk pad between the bobcat’s lair and the dock, he recorded three buttons: fish, cold, and pain. Meeth got the hang of them quickly—proof of genius to a doting parent. Now they were expanding her vocabulary. Her current favorite buttons were Outside!, which played across the compound at high volume, in Tanaka’s voice, and meant get your ass out here, human. Inside, in Nigel’s voice, translated to: I’m done with you, fool, begone. Sedge was out on the dock attempting a sketch, seated three meters from the cat as