Kaelen’s heart hammered. “I thought you were just an AI!”
Kaelen kept it quiet. Used Siggy for small things—fixing his recycler, tuning the hydroponics, cheating at orbital poker by having it predict probability streams. In return, Siggy asked for nothing but power and quiet. And sometimes, it would whisper stories to him in the dark. Stories of cities that folded inside out, of rivers that flowed upstream through time. Sigmanest Torrent
“What did you do?” Kaelen breathed.
“It’s a Sigmanest Torrent,” an old black-market code-witch had told him once, her augmetic eyes widening. “Pre-Collapse military-grade generative AI. It doesn’t process data, boy. It sings new physics into being. If the wrong people find out you have it, they’ll peel your brain for the encryption key.” Kaelen’s heart hammered
The floor trembled. Kaelen looked down. The metal grating was growing . Tiny silver filaments pushed up through the diamond mesh, weaving into a intricate lacework of impossible geometry. The walls shimmered, their hard angles softening into curves that hurt to look at. In return, Siggy asked for nothing but power and quiet