"Oh, I mean, I could have a working droid," she said. "I just can't do the whole system necessarily, like, okay, it's programmed on this path, and the others are over there, all coordinating in."

She pulled out another sheet. Not even a proper blueprint, just some of her personal chicken scratch. "I was thinking about what you said. About how ... if droids are able to attack, then bystanders might get hurt. Kids who can't read, or animals, or whatever. So I kinda tweaked the idea, some."