At Homesick Valley (2)

"Your name is Jetson- 1226, correct?"

"Yup."

"You can even speak with emotion? And even choose not to for higher paid."

"Yes."

"And what is the number 1226 means in your name."

"That means I have the same name as my species. We used those numbers to differentiate from each other."

"Which means you have no right to choose your own name you favor."

"That's right."

"Do you even have rights. You are a sentient creature capable of free will. You are being treated like an object. What stop you?"

"Nothing really... It's not just us. Every other species go by the same way. Even original humans. Don't worry it's just a generational trend. It will probably go away in a few centuries. By the way, the original humans are extinct."

"What!? What about the guy walking his dog or his dog walking him. He's weird, sure... but he still is a human."

"Ahh... That's not human. Not even the dog is a real dog. They're skinwalkers."

"The what...? SKINWALKERS!"

"The switching ritual they just performed is a regular exercise routine. Don't worry about them. They're harmless. Skinwalkers from your time are hostile because they are at the feral state, the first stage of their evolution. Now they are more civilized."

"That's a lot to catch up to. Speaking of catching up, let's just start with the basic. Do you have records of what happened after 2020s."

"Yes, I do have records but only brief histories of what happened with the decade. The more specific years, months and days are recorded in The Babel Lite."

"The babel... you means the tower?"

"No."

"Library?"

"Close, though its more of a database than a library. Due to the copyright laws, we can't call it The Library of Babel."

"What do you mean? It was already more than a hundred years since it was written..."

"That's only applied to the far future world of Delipunk. Not the outer world..."

"What is the outer world."

"The outerworld..."

"Just say you don't know."