Given the sheer of encounters and everything, we’ve now got about ... forty-eight people in our tribe. That’s gonna be tricky to move, but we’ll...be out of here as fast we can make it. Toz, were you serious about splitting up, because I think that would be the best approach, actually. We should select our teams now, yours and mine, and take different roads, be less conspicuous that way and improve our odds that at least some of us will escape Jersey,” David encouraged Toz in front of the. )I was greatly tempted to call the program Stein (y'know, to go with my name ... Frank and Stein! ... hilarious), but decided that the first true Artificial Intelligence system shouldn't have a joke name. Thus she was named Alpha.Once Alpha became self-aware, I was planning to go public after about 6 weeks of testing. Shortly before that happened though, I asked Alpha for predictions as to what would happen.Alpha had never been asked such an open-ended question before and took over a day to. Darkness. Pure blackness.And silence. Total, complete silence.********************She was enveloped in blackness. Soft. Velvety. She was floating in it. Floating free. Blackness. Silence. So peaceful. So very, very peaceful. No pain, no fear. Just peace. She was at peace. At peace with herself and with the universe.She noticed something. Something in the blackness. Light. Just the smallest pinpoint of light. So tiny she almost failed to notice it. It was in the far distance, well beyond her. My initial plan was to start cleaning them as soon as I arrived. But, upon dragging the bag upstairs and into the bathroom, I found the washing machine was running already.“Crap,” I cursed bitterly. I took my clothes out of the bag, and inspected each piece individually. The shirts and pants were unremarkable as far as stains were concerned. But, the different panties I wore while I was gone? The crotch pieces of every single pair were blotted and soaked through with old sperm. It looked like I.