He dreaded public speaking. He could feel his palms getting sweatier by the moment. I have to do this, I have to do this. - he murmured. Why did it come this far? It was not my idea to put the automated self defense program in. It was not my idea at all. But here I am, having to apologize, in front of this angry crowd, oh how I hate this, I wish I could just go far far away and hide out on a deserted island. But if I don't take the blame, they are going to kill my family. Why did I ever make this mistake of working for them? It's all over now, the show must go on..they are going to hate me forever and the people will not understand how I am forced to make this speech. 5 minutes left... I'm not ready.
He paced up and down in the hallway like a trapped rat. There was nothing left to do. The robots have been killing people for days now and it seemed like there will be no stop to this. The apology and the reasoning will not make anything better.
But he's family will survive - for now.
OK, so just for context, this is a 5 minute freewrite for
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@mariannewest/day-153-5-minute-freewrite-wednesday-prompt-speaker
I did edit some, also I stalled for like 15 seconds at sweatier, I completely forgot there's an 'a' in there and steemit kept underlining it... Also I guess this came out because I read about the automated uber accident earlier today... Anyhow, this was fun, hope to do more (and also, write my intro post and write about cyoa and more). (I took the picture above)
