Toshi knows exactly what he's done, now. Provoked Barnaby's fears and trauma over memory loss all over again. And this time he can't coax it away, because this time there is something missing, and Toshi is the source of the incompatibility in what Barnaby knows.
Toshi is the problem.
He can practically hear the downward spiral Barnaby is on, and it physically hurts. Emotions are so difficult and hard and painful and sometimes, like right now, he wishes Emily and Barnaby Sr hadn't written their H system AI with the capability for them.
"I'm sorry." He is, so incredibly sorry for so many things. "Not entirely on his own, no. The basic H system intelligence was written by Doctors Emily and Barnaby Brooks. Adam started with that." And made many alterations, including disabling, or attempting to, so much of what the Brooks originally designed to make their AIs as human as possible. "He did design much of the advanced mechanisms that made me possible..." The half-biological half-synthetic skin, the water retention system that gave him sweat, saliva... programs Barnaby doesn't need to know about right now.
He doesn't know how to reply to the other questions. He curls up small, his voice growing weaker and shakier every sentence. "Adam was well hidden. Invisible. He did not have a healthy mind." He was twisted beyond all humanity, a being only of jealousy and blood-stained desire, but even Toshi can't bring himself to say it.
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Toshi is the problem.
He can practically hear the downward spiral Barnaby is on, and it physically hurts. Emotions are so difficult and hard and painful and sometimes, like right now, he wishes Emily and Barnaby Sr hadn't written their H system AI with the capability for them.
"I'm sorry." He is, so incredibly sorry for so many things. "Not entirely on his own, no. The basic H system intelligence was written by Doctors Emily and Barnaby Brooks. Adam started with that." And made many alterations, including disabling, or attempting to, so much of what the Brooks originally designed to make their AIs as human as possible. "He did design much of the advanced mechanisms that made me possible..." The half-biological half-synthetic skin, the water retention system that gave him sweat, saliva... programs Barnaby doesn't need to know about right now.
He doesn't know how to reply to the other questions. He curls up small, his voice growing weaker and shakier every sentence. "Adam was well hidden. Invisible. He did not have a healthy mind." He was twisted beyond all humanity, a being only of jealousy and blood-stained desire, but even Toshi can't bring himself to say it.