He sees that. "Absolutely not," he says, "no worries. I'll tag them auto-delete, too, so they clear automatically after a while." He makes a couple of gestures with his hand, his little robot hovers closer, and, "Done." Just like that.

"Gimme a second to pull these from Beepers' onboard," he says, already opening the app in his vision and accessing the drone's camera storage. He transfers the images from Beepers to his Interface, deletes them from the drones, takes a couple of seconds more to tag the lot for auto-delete, and then closes the pertinent programs again with a big wiping gesture.

"And done," he says. "Thank you, Soldat."