8“It sounds like a computer when it’s in control of you. Acknowledge. Activate. It uses computer terms. That’s how it answered my questions.”
Sugar sighed. “It’s spoken English to me every time I’ve heard it, but it does talk to itself in some other strange language once in a while. Often I can’t tell if it’s my brain thinking or the artifact trying to communicate. Its intelligence is obvious, but its logic is unexplainable.”
Axel stared at her, trying to figure out how strange it must be to have a living computer inside you. “The word intelligent fits what I experienced. It’s a highly logical, thinking entity capable of the kind of rational battle decisions any trained general would envy.”
“Hey now,” Sugar said with as much snark as she could summon. “I’m smart too. Sure, my intelligen
