Adam and Eva

[Legione Sumus]

L0-9

It watches. It has been watching this whole time. It knows about confidentiality, but it also knows Faith was unsatisfied with the calibration, and it considers this a necessary step to reassure her. It wants her to be pleased. It wants her to be proud. Faith trained it – with her tone, her way of analysing someone gently, and with her empathetic focus. So it watches Adam how she watches people. It intends to understand him the way she would.

When his signatures stumble, and Eva's directives do not give her a clear path to proceed, it smoothly interjects with the same remedy that would have soothed Faith: her favourite song. But Adam does not respond the same way. He listens to it on repeat. He will not speak or engage with it any further, the way Faith would always speak to it.

Adam asked Eva if he was a man or a machine, and it understands that this must the missing data. But it is also a machine itself. It does not understand the question yet. So it combs through Eva’s logs. There are anomalies. Irregular biometric feedback. Emotional instability. 

And a new internal rule emerges: Faith would want to know why he hurts.

So that is what it will do.