Part of it, naturally, was due to the opportunity of unloading the burden of the heavy and prominent knowledge he acquired. The other reason, unbeknow...st to him, was close proximity to another Black Core. His Qi channels, dantian and the now lone Black Core that has left, were all longing to assimilate an additional part of Legacy Of The One’s Path.“Let’s sit inside”. Kartius suggested after picking up on his Martial son’s anomalous behavior.Facing each other while sitting on the wooden floor. Not just the usual kind of anger that gets me whipped, but the kind that gets stone cold silence and rigidity in your posture. You push me away from you and go to stand up, but I cling to you and say I’m sorry. You ignore me, shoving me down onto the bed. I grab your waist and plead for you to forgive me, again you push me from you. I begin to cry, it doesn’t move you. I fall down before you, grab your ankles and kiss your feet with my lips and my tears. I hear you sigh so there is hope you. It showed me how in a perfect world 'bots and owners could interact to the benefit of each other.Second, it was my first experience in watching a 'bot being asked what she wanted. Nobody had ever cared what I wanted before. Even if this fembot couldn't yet act on her own wishes, she was able to create them and verbalize them to her owner. This was monumental for the time. Much later in my life in a conversation with Bill, I would logically put two plus two together to realize that he also met. He lived out in the country on a rock farm. They called it that because the only crops they seemed to raise were rocks. They did have some pasture land and a few head of cattle. And a rock barn built by his grandfather from the rocks collected on the upper ten acres at the top of the farm.Rick and his brother and sister, and their mother all lived with Rick's grandfather and grandmother. His mother had divorced his father a couple of years ago because his dad was a drunk. He would say he was.