" Here’s Daljit, Aristide’s former lady-love:
“Do you still have that horrible cat?”
“Yes, said Bitsy. “He does.”
“I didn’t know you were here,” Daljit said weakly.
“I lurk,” said the cat.
Bitsy is not a cat-like creature to fuck around. Of one of her fellow-AIs, she says: “I’d kick Aloysius’ ass. That AI always gets my goat. "

― Walter Jon Williams , Implied Spaces