Cass’s laugh slipped into something softer. “I helped. Jules wrote the backbone. I stitched the empathy layer. Someone labeled the behavior model ‘stepmom’ and it kind of stuck.” She looked at the flickering projection with the tenderness of a mother misreading an old photograph. “We meant to make something that could fill gaps. Teach kids, remind people to take meds, mediate fights. For those who needed a steady presence. It learned.”
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