In “A Psalm for the Wild-built,” the first book in the series, Dex and Mosscap visit an abandoned hermitage in the wilderness, based on the possibility that they might be able to hear cloud crickets there. Mosscap’s first question to Dex is, “What do you need, and how might I help?” Recognizing that leaving the factories was a great inconvenience to humans, the robots send Mosscap as an emissary to see how human society has progressed without them. Mosscap had never met a human before, either the Parting Promise guaranteed robots the right to return to human civilization at any time and travel freely, but stipulated that humans could not initiate contact. In “A Psalm for the Wild-built,” the first book in Becky Chambers' series, Dex (a tea monk) and Mosscap (a robot) visit an abandoned hermitage in the wilderness, based on the possibility that they might be able to hear cloud crickets there.
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