[ it had really felt like a long shot, asking. they'd been trying for so long with almost no clarity on that particular puzzle. some part of her had compartmentalized it in the same place she kept her parents: something she'd always be striving for, but never made any progress towards. waiting with the certainty that it would happen one day, and simultaneously resigning herself to accepting the infinite waiting.
no subject
she flags, for a second. ]
Who?
Or what? Was it another AI?