By Taurus
Part 9 – Non-Coincidence Principle
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Although Matt had acted coldly towards a now resting Luke, he did, in truth, care.
He cared a whole lot.
As he monitored the manufacturing progress of his requisitioned parts – device casings and power cells and AI conduits – without any way to speed them up, he spent most of his time with Luke.
Vantage, being his primary diagnostics AI, acted as a digital doctor, checking Luke’s pulse and neural activity. He had, after all, just done an intense simulation where time passed 20 times faster than in real life.
Having been assured that Luke was of good health, Matt dismissed Vantage.
His AIs were never wrong – so long as they were not asked questions of morality – but it was sometimes hard to accept their emotionless analyses as a human; Luke was so out of it that the stimulus of Matt touching his usually sensitive nipple did not wake him.