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[It takes her a minute or two to spot where he is, but once she does, she heads over and kneels down so she's more on his level, tugging on his shirt.]

Caesar, wake up.

[ The tugging does enough to rouse him from slumber, though initially it's just him opening his eyes just a bit to squint at her. Blurry, sleepy vision. ]

What? Why?

You were going to tell me about the mission.

[And give her chocolate. Priorities.]

You gotta get up.

[ Chocolate is important! ]

Fine, fine. [ He'll sit up some, though he has no intention of standing. ] Did you even want to know about the mission or do you just want your candy?

Of course I want to know about the mission! The candy isn't that important to me.

Never hurts to check.

[ But first, let him sit up away from the bags and pull one around. He'll begin his search for where he left all the chocolate. ]

Not that it's a very exciting story. There's an awful lot of sitting around and reading in it...

Are you going to tell me or not?

[ He pauses in his search to sigh and look up at her. ]

There's a whole year to cover, Ahiru. It'd go faster if you told me what you'd actually like to know about it.

Well, like - what did you do?

[A pause.]

I mean, what was the mission for?

To make sure some guy who was supposed to reveal big advances in AI technology actually went through with it.

[ It's an incredibly simplified version, but that's the basic idea. ]

Which we, well, did. It just took a really long time.

[She blinks.]

Why wouldn't he have gone through with it?

Because he'd been in an accident. That's why most of the mission was with Collette being in the rehabilitation center with him.

[ One final push of searching through the bag turns up the store of chocolates. He pulls out a white paper bag tied at the top with ribbons and marked in fancy French lettering rather than a box. ]

[She accepts the bag with a smile, setting it next to her before she responds.]

Thank you, Caesar. So, was it building up his confidence, or something else?

That's the basic idea, yeah. Collette did most of that. I worked from outside the center.

What did you do, then?

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