It should have been impossible. The expression of emotion, even something akin to empathy. Even with the rapid evolution of the PME, this shouldn’t have happened, not this soon at least. The Prospective Memory Engine was never designed for emotion, only a basic sort of instinct. The first Emotive familiars had been a surprise. Casual updates to the code had caused different distributions to behave in certain ways, but no familiar had ever truly expressed any emotions.
I’ve decided to start writing again, going back to Project: Jinx. Above is a bit I wrote just now, just to dabble in the universe Jinx is set in. I’ve removed the password on the Project page on the right here, so feel free to take a look. I’m going to use my blog to write up random bits and pieces, aside from the usual gibberish I write when the mood strikes.
I’m not sure yet if any of it will be used when I finally do write the actual story. This is just an exploration of a multiverse that’s inside my head, in order to distill it into a single universe, with a multitude of stories I may or may not tell.