NanoSteps Brainstorming 3 - And a Step to the Right

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"Eimi, do you have a minute?"

The voice from Eimi's speaker wasn't Eimi. "I'm sorry, Sangnoir-san, but Eimi-neesan is asleep right now. Can I help you?"

I knew that Eimi was picking up some things from the local infomorphs, but I didn't realize the idea of "sleep" was one of them. I didn't know which was stranger - the fact that an AI wanted to sleep, or the fact that she could run a completely different personality simulation while she did. "Hi, Sora. It can wait for a couple of hours."

"Oh. Okay."

She sounded a bit sad. Was that part of the sim, or was there something I needed to know (all right: something I *wanted* to know) about Eimi's life right now? Eimi had helped Noah Scott design his assistants, so the Sora personality sim was one she'd had for years - they might have integrated with each other. "Do you want to talk while I'm waiting for Eimi to wake up, Sora?"

Spoiler

Inspired by this thread on the SJGames forums, so call this a cross with Transhuman Space