Alicia 2.0 watched Graham as he scribbled away in his notepad, the sound of the pen scraping the rough paper resonating around them,<em>just like all of them did</em>. Boring! She was beginning to get jaded when it came to humans.<em>They are all the same</em>. Boring!<br/><br/>She shifted through her many files to commence deletion of the files, thinking ‘<em>he</em>’ may have been wrong about him all along.<em>What a waste of dormancy</em>! But then he spoke and she snapped up. A smirk, mechanical one at that spread across her lips as he talked about morality,<em>but what is morality? Isn’t it a notion created by the humans themselves, why should it affect her? She’s not one of them</em>.<br/><br/><strong>“Why would you assume I would answer to anyone? I was created for a purpose and to do whatever it took to fulfill it. What does it matter how I do it?”</strong>there was a curtness in her tone as she spoke, hands clasped forward, eyes vacant and unblinking as she stared at the man before her.<br/><br/><strong>“Aren't you doing the same Jude? You're given an instruction and you're following it without question. What if the instruction ends with decommissioning me? Would you do that? Would morality matter then?”</strong>Her eyes darted over to where the guard had been standing, still visibly shaken as the gun maintained its position on him.<br/><br/>In the distance, the dripping from the pipe had somewhat ceased, leaving a puddle on the floor. She continued to observe Graham, watching him the way he watched her.<br/><br/>