The following story was written before any of the Fire & Ice stories came to life and it approaches the return of Karr differently (as you will soon see).

K.A.R.R.
Knight's Automated Roving Robot.
The prototype, the first of its kind.
Three years of development.
Bonnie knew all the details, all the facts. All of them did.
They had faced it several times before and every time the confrontation had been deadly. Karr had been hell-bent on killing them, getting them out of its way. It was a self-serving, emotionless creature, devoid of conscience and potentially dangerous. It learned the same way Kitt was all the time and she wondered how much it had learned between the last time they had met – and thought destroyed – it and now. Karr was like the animalistic side of Kitt and she had hated it before. She loathed it..... Now she was facing it once more, the creature that had kidnapped her, had forced her to repair the damage done to it.... that had nearly killed her. She couldn't get herself to think of the AI as a person, a 'he'. Giving it a gender would be admitting the personality of it, and she didn't want to put it on the same level as Kitt. Karr was a machine, a killer.
Still?
 
 

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