A robotic nurse is tasked with saving a Japanese city in this story probing where AI ends and sentience begins.

Gil turned again, looking around the room, starting to itch and sweat. What the hell was it? It sounded half-wooden, half… ivory. Sliding across the….

“Oh.”

He looked down.

The debris of the piano was moving.

“Death is particularly shit when you’re anchored to your own decomposing corpse, like an ethereal balloon tied to a profoundly ugly and deeply stupid dog.”