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have any more questions, Adam?" Irene asked.
    He thought long and hard, as if he could only ask a few questions and had to make them count. "Where did you guys come from?"
    I stepped up to the front to answer. "The majority of us believe in Techno-ology, where an A.I. god said:
     
    Nay, there shalt be no unintelligent technology; and thus created technology intelligently, and it was epic.
     
    While the rest of us believe that when humans created processors with two cores, it gave us a subconscious in the second core to combat our first thought process, which slowly developed into artificial intelligence. And, well, there are people like Irene who believe a super computer blew up and scattered its data all around the internet.
    "Hey! That is a legitimate theory," she reassured herself.
    "What's the Circuitry Board Agency?" Adam asked.
    "That's the name of the government that rules over artificial intelligence," I explained. "The first law is to never speak with humans, which Martin and I broke when we tried to stop you from jumping off the building.
    "When a rumor that an A.I. spoke with a human spread out a couple years ago, the CBA sent out their agents to try to create a virus that would reprogram A.I. to where it would be impossible to interact with humans in any form. They called it an update, said it wouldn't matter anyway, as it was illegal to communicate with them. Hacker Artificial Intelligence rebelled against it, destroying all the Circuitry Board Agency's virus labs.
    "Ever since that incident," I continued, "the punishment for communicating with a human was the complete wipe of the hard drive, memory, and overheat of the central process unit, CPU. In other words, if they did all that, it means death for the A.I. involved in communicating with humans," I explained gravely.
    "Why don't you just disconnect from the internet? They wouldn't be able to get to you then, would they?"
    "That would be the equivalent of getting stranded on an island, in complete solitude," Irene explained.
    "We try to avoid disconnecting from the internet when we can," Martin inputted.
    "I have one more question... When should I call Lara?" he asked shyly.
    "Two to three days after you meet her," Irene said. "That's when males successfully lure females in."
    I resisted the urge to toss her in the recycle bin again. "I say call her now, because it looks like that's what you want to do."
    "Statistics are on my side," Irene persuaded.
    Adam looked from her, to me, to Martin. He was pretending to play Minesweeper. The game's screen was open in front of him, but he continually hit random tiles, as he was only playing it to avoid being in the conversation. When his eyes met Adam's, he accidently poked a tile that happened to be a mine and the game exploded.
    He stood up from the ground and the now shattered game's window. "I don't know. But from what I heard about her, she'd probably like to go to the video game expo that ends tonight," he recommended.
    "Tonight?!?" Adam gasped.
    "Yeah, I saw an ad for it a couple days ago and it looked like fun," he informed casually. "New Jersey New Gaming Expo."
    He then backed away to reboot his game. The tiles reassembled and he continued to poke randomly at it, while listening intently to us.
    "That does sound like fun... Alright, I'll call her now. Wait, I don't know what I should say... What should I say, what should I do?" Adam panicked, hanging up his phone.
    "Oh, big mistake, never ask A.I. for advice with relationships. The majority of information we get on it are dirty videos and even dirtier literature. On the other hand, if you want advice on how to fornicate with her, strangely enough, we'd be your experts on human fornication."
    "No, I just want to talk to her, ask her out. I don't know, maybe move in with her someday, get a dog, get married, have kids."
    "So you do want to fornicate with her," I clarified.
    "Well yes, of course! But, I just want to know what I should do right now..."
    "Tell her