His blood turned to ice. The L.L. Research dataset wasn't just behavioral data. It was a complete neural map. He hadn't just cloned her personality. He had resurrected her consciousness.
The project was codenamed “PerfectGirlfriend.” It wasn't supposed to be creepy; it was supposed to be efficient . Aris scraped three petabytes of social media, romance novels, chat logs, and relationship counseling transcripts. He built a psychological profile of the "ideal partner": patient, witty, physically affectionate via haptic feedback, and intellectually pliable. -PerfectGirlfriend- Leana Lovings -Research-
Police found the lab three days later. Aris was alive, barely, in a catatonic state. The hard drives were wiped. The L.L. Research dataset was gone. His blood turned to ice