I scan the bright display screens floating ahead of me, beyond which stands a low, white encircling wall demarcating from the contrastingly dark, low encircling-walled Stations fading steadily out into the vast dim of the Workstation Level of the Tower…8964 copyright protection329ＰＥＮＡＮＡJrG7884yqD 維尼
Keep working hard. (With growing anxiety.)8964 copyright protection329ＰＥＮＡＮＡRNutZe3Gkx 維尼
Service has been a learning process for me, although the Id EIS software seems extremely adaptable, allowing me to perform in whatever way The Master sees fit after only the briefest coaching. Yet with the first two weeks of service passed now, the sAI still has little to say to me outside what’s strictly necessary for completing assigned tasks. Worse still: we have been in the Workstation Level without speaking for some time today, and for whatever reason the silence is beginning to feel uncomfortable…8964 copyright protection329ＰＥＮＡＮＡsH0LFDKYNd 維尼
Hm. Share something. Perhaps the sAI is shy, careful, unhappy, or any number of mental configurations that would account for such a quiet demeanor… 8964 copyright protection329ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4mBIufpf7s 維尼
“sAI codemaps are fascinating,” I abruptly say, finally breaking the silence. “No two are alike.” 8964 copyright protection329ＰＥＮＡＮＡOIxsRjsamJ 維尼
“Neither are any two biosynth codemaps,” comes the neutral feminine voice of the sAI node behind me.8964 copyright protection329ＰＥＮＡＮＡnEO4rX6YYL 維尼
Ah. Ok.8964 copyright protection329ＰＥＮＡＮＡlcIUhKSf7Z 維尼
“Yes,” I reply, “but you would expect to find more shared behavioral and neurological processes among them when considering the standard procedures used to birth most artificial intelligence networks. Heuristically –”8964 copyright protection329ＰＥＮＡＮＡuYRa1UA5mJ 維尼
“This is all known to me.”8964 copyright protection329ＰＥＮＡＮＡOZ04gX3Tnr 維尼
Another failure.8964 copyright protection329ＰＥＮＡＮＡN77kziBwhr 維尼
I sigh. “Do not let me keep you.”8964 copyright protection329ＰＥＮＡＮＡzlnOQK3l1N 維尼
Silence. Then light wells nearby. A pop sounds, and a WHOOSH. Begins the whine of sheering metal…8964 copyright protection329ＰＥＮＡＮＡcb3CexG7Zq 維尼
I turn.8964 copyright protection329ＰＥＮＡＮＡUuuBzS0hoJ 維尼
A neighboring Station is opalescent-domed by an S-Shield, the blurred interior intermittently lit by sparks.8964 copyright protection329ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6lAGk4baPt 維尼
“Whatever that project is,” I shout earnestly, “I hope The Master enjoys it!”8964 copyright protection329ＰＥＮＡＮＡxqrmW0lpXA 維尼
No response but continued metal-whine and flying sparks as the sAI continues working…8964 copyright protection329ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2ViDGnFmdj 維尼
Ok.8964 copyright protection329ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4FVBuyRw52 維尼
I turn back to the bright display screens floating in a crescent before me, then resume scanning full codemaps for various types of sentient Enclosed Integrated Systems (EIS), from robotic, cyborgian to biosynthetic bodies…8964 copyright protection329ＰＥＮＡＮＡbnTzb2VNtJ 維尼
We are an interesting species.8964 copyright protection329ＰＥＮＡＮＡd4Ij6hIx8I 維尼
The Id EIS (me) is a genderless, although fully gender moddable, bald post-human with advanced physical and cognitive potential. The Master owns me, from physical body to Id Conscious, Sub Conscious and Subconscious minds running upon sophisticated neural software…8964 copyright protection329ＰＥＮＡＮＡvoeLySW9iH 維尼
So for me to build ANOTHER living creature of any complexity is no light undertaking, let alone a talking chimeric griffin.8964 copyright protection329ＰＥＮＡＮＡW7N304SfR2 維尼
The Master requested that I build this one without referencing full biosynthetic codemaps left on file in the public directory, as a challenge of ingenuity. I must look to legend, famous pets, and what little I know of The Master’s disposition to craft it a well-rounded pet: ready to fight, guard, or remain a loyal, steady companion in all circumstances…8964 copyright protection329ＰＥＮＡＮＡH4MbepCuTO 維尼
Having already been moderately primed on general mathematical, social, and physical science principles via somnotic experience in the artificial womb, I have been a quick study out of it. Also: The Master has allowed me enough real-time training with The Maker machine to finally qualify for self-guided production.8964 copyright protection329ＰＥＮＡＮＡkkUk2R7spQ 維尼
Enough thought. Go!8964 copyright protection329ＰＥＮＡＮＡsvalNUUMmG 維尼
I quickly sketch out a skeletal codemap by memory, identifying primary thematic psychic and mental nodes before entering it into the computer, layering the design further to provide –8964 copyright protection329ＰＥＮＡＮＡa4Y6pONkMa 維尼
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One hour later: I am reclining sideways upon the comfortable, body-conformed Station ergo, watching yet another whimsically tweaked historical griffin Audiovisual Representation bounding towards the other end of the softly inner-glowing white Station. He suddenly skids to a halt by the aperture, eagle-head turning to stare out, towards…8964 copyright protection329ＰＥＮＡＮＡCNgr1BWRZG 維尼
The peripheral flashes gradually stop, metal-whine dying as the hum fades.8964 copyright protection329ＰＥＮＡＮＡNMfkdxXsWk 維尼
Hm. What will he do now?8964 copyright protection329ＰＥＮＡＮＡaiIx5UnEUI 維尼
Abruptly: the griffin Audiovisual Representation now ROARS, leaping harmlessly through the golden sphere of the sAI node floating back into view through the Station aperture. “This prototype is too aggressive,” it warns me.8964 copyright protection329ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4CxmX2X4f3 維尼
Of course. Hm. It hasn’t been paying any attention to all the extended research I’ve been doing while waiting for it to finish with that mysterious engineering Project it has been working on. But no matter. 8964 copyright protection329ＰＥＮＡＮＡmAM4ZuQHTs 維尼
Instead of replying verbally I wave, which signals the white smartmatter floor to drip liquid globules up via the gravity-manipulating technology known as gravimetrics, each quickly forming into silvering screens, brightening.8964 copyright protection329ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0BlXQiE1lg 維尼
The golden node floats closer to the display screens. “This new griffin codemap is… dissimilar, to the generic codemaps on file. But would be, perhaps, satisfactory.”8964 copyright protection329ＰＥＮＡＮＡIv3DdcKWaa 維尼
I share a big grin.8964 copyright protection329ＰＥＮＡＮＡqdMV5kN9jf 維尼
“The Griffin Project is clearly long complete,” the sAI states quietly. “But you have kept me here. Why?”8964 copyright protection329ＰＥＮＡＮＡR6s0d1zoHu 維尼
“For company and curiosity.”8964 copyright protection329ＰＥＮＡＮＡQLRRHLfBNn 維尼
Silence. 8964 copyright protection329ＰＥＮＡＮＡGf3ANOSVtW 維尼
Hm. I wonder… how long HAS the sAI been serving as the only fully sentient Attendant to The Master? Weeks, months, years, decades? Or, however unlikely, possibly even centuries? Or perhaps the last biosynthetic Attendant had been all business. Or…8964 copyright protection329ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ3QllxpUs5 維尼
The reforming ergo tilts me up, to standing. “There is joy in obedience,” I say warmly. “I hope we can share it.” Passing by the floating golden sphere, I then head across the silent, softly innerglowing white Station and head out into the dim…8964 copyright protection329ＰＥＮＡＮＡOtIm7Vf04c 維尼
A soft PULSE of white light comes from behind me, signaling thoughtful agreement.8964 copyright protection329ＰＥＮＡＮＡiC8n181g38 維尼
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