This is a delightful short story, more princess-fairy-tale than science-fiction (just a brief mention of the fact that her elders are busy governing numerous star-systems and the fact that her everyday companions are robotic servitors), that catches you up and sweeps you along.
For the Princess thinks something is missing, as she takes a walk in the carefully-manicured palace gardens, accompanied of course by a whole swarm of robots, busy keeping her safe, and clean, and profferring suggestions as to how she might be entertained... in manners befitting a princess, of course. Some new poetry to read or a shady spot in which to sit, or even a suitable decorous game to play.
Then she spots a lizard that she's never seen before, certainly not in the palace gardens! Insisting over nanny-robot protests in following it she finds...
... go read the story and find out! It's a charming if simple tale, enjoy.
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