Parker contemplated that question, then shuffled over to pet the puppies. She liked having Stance there for Megabyte to play with when they were doing other things, or to play with herself when Megabyte was giving Eliot all her deserved attention.

"I don't. But I would, if I were a giant Kraken thingy. I'd want something to play with." She paused, and said, "Do you think the Kraken has a job?"

Sunlight and water, and a boat, and time to ask unanswerable questions: Yay vacations.