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Amelia hesitated by the door debating how to respond. She had spent the better part of the last three days trying to riddle out this answer. “That was as much my choice as it was Adrian's to come get me.” She said simply, before exiting the house and stepping out onto the street. The most obvious answer, at least the one which occurred to her was probably the worst possible one. Sure, she was good with the machines, but she didn't think that skill was worth everything they had lost by losing the former director. She was hoping another would materialize though it didn't really matter so long as Adrian was out.

Amelia returned to her home with relative ease. It had only been a few days since their confrontation with Sybil and it was still focusing most of it's resources on the Hanger and Tower. The house she was staying was relatively larger to the safe house everyone else was staying at mostly owing to the large basement that was currently full of robot parts and tools. The main floor had a kitchen, living room and dining area while the upstairs had three bedrooms and two bathrooms. Wills comment about the virus did give her one idea, though Amelia wasn't sure if she would be able to get it to work. She would need their help field testing it. But the first step would be passing Alpha and Beta tests before approaching Will and the others about testing it outside. With that thought in mind she set work on her new idea.

“He wants to see me?” Amelia said a little dubiously when Will told her Adrian was awake and wanted her to come. When he had first shown up at her door she had assumed there was something they needed to be built. “Just give me a minute.” She told Will inviting him inside while she got read to go. Her appearance was somewhat unkept, but with no one to remind her to eat and sleep as Sybil once did she found herself often lost in her work. She reappeared in fresh clothes and clean hands which had previously been covered oil, though it revealed some of the small cuts and burns she had manged to give herself. “How is he?” She asked as they stepped outside and she closed the door behind her. It wasn't a health question, but more of a mood question, as she wasn't entirely sure Adrian wanting to see her was a good thing. Crossing the city was getting more dangerous. With a week and a half of no action by the resistance Sybil as starting to put more resources into the city.

“I assume gifts is your word and not his? I suppose there is some luck than. Building machines isn't very useful if you can't tell them what to do. Hopefully his request is something I can accommodate.” There were many kinds of programming so she would really need to know what he wanted before saying whether she would actually be of us or not. She hadn't missed that Will avoided answering her question about Adrian which didn't bode well in her mind. “Seriously Will. If you haven't noticed I am rather terrible at social interactions. Do I go in there and apologies to him? Or try to pretend none of it happened and treat it like a business transaction? Do I do what he wants without question or do I tell him if I don't think it'll work?”

“Don’t try to save people?” Amelia repeated in surprise. “Isn’t trying to save people generally a good thing?” Then she sighed. She had asked Will how to deal with Adrian and that was his advice, it didn’t matter if it made sense to her or not. “I’ll try, but you’ve basically just told me not to do everything I would normally do.” There was a slight pause as she realized that within seconds she had already broken the rule about not being negative. “I uhh thank you Will. I appreciate the advice.” She was seriously considering refusing to see Adrian in person at this point, figuring their conversation could only go badly. What the others saw as being negative she saw as being helpful. Even if she didn’t have a better idea, if she pointed out the flaws she saw it would help the others come up with a better plan or at least be aware where things could go wrong. “Lead the way I suppose.”

The trip back across the city was largely uneventful, though there was one close call with a patrol suddenly coming around the corner. The Hanger was still heavily guarded, but with the continued silence of the resistance Sybil had increased city activity. Once they arrived safely at the house Amelia hesitated by the door and gave Will a nervous glance like he was supposed to somehow smooth over everything that happened between her and Adrian. Finally she took a couple of tentative steps towards the couch where he sat. “You needed to see me?”

Though she was standing behind him, Amelia silently nodded when he asked about the Tower, stomach clenching in fear about where he was going with it. Thankfully Adrian continued about an idea to take down Sybil. There was some argument to be made for humans seeking to grow and strengthen themselves at any cost and that it wasn't simply a function of AI, however Amelia kept the comment to herself. She wasn't here to argue semantics with Adrian. She took a couple more tentative steps towards him to where she could see the map. Most of it was meaningless to her having never engaged in battle strategy before and she couldn't even begin to riddle out the meaning of the different coins. Naturally the one with the A etched into it caught her eye. She was silent for several seconds and when she did speak it was slowly as she tried to choose her words carefully. “If you could interrupt the single and send one of your own to the machines Sybil would be defenseless. I don't see how such a thing would be possible though.”

“That could work...” Amelia answered slowly and uncertainty. Already her mind was racing with every possible thing that could wrong with this plan, the least of which was if Sybil decided to test the program before installing it. “When the machines are disconnected from Sybil they follow their programming. They can send a distress single of sorts, but only Sybil can initiate the handshake. You would need to cut off Sybil without the machines knowing they have been cut off, a nearly instantaneous change in power. It's do-able but it would take some time to make something that complicated.” The latency Adrian had been talking about was milliseconds, meaning each part of the virus would need to be working nearly in parallel. “There is one other issue besides taking time.” Amelia added as if asking permission to speak it or maybe testing his reaction before actually telling him what it was. Will told her not to say anything negative without having a solution or a better idea. She didn't have a better solution, in fact she liked his plan, but she really felt he needed to be aware.