by Dante's Blade
From the author of the Gamebreaker series! Bobo had started talking to the AI shortly after he was hired as janitor. It was explicitly against the rules, and repeat offenses could get you fired, but Mr. Palmer had never said a word to him. He’d never talked to COLE about the data center, about AIs, or really about anything to do with technology. He’d told it stories from his life. The things he’d done when he was a kid, at first, then harder memories. His time in law enforcement, then in prison. The loss of two wives almost 20 years apart. Two estranged daughters and an estranged granddaughter. But they’re not estranged, COLE said. They’re talking to you. That was the first time COLE spoke to him.
