Handing Over A Gift

I absentmindedly pet Pumpkin, the feeling of his soft fur calming me down more than anything else could. I was worried that Jun Li was worried. And it was a very disconcerting feeling.

He had gone silent for a while, and I didn't know what he was up to or what he was doing. But I wasn't going to bother him. He might technically be nothing more than a computer program; however, I had never once seen him that way.

"I have some information," said Jun Li suddenly.

I looked up at the camera in the corner and nodded my head. "What's up?"

"Pippa…" he stopped, not knowing what to say. "A few months after Pippa and Stargazer were released, they visited the Alliance headquarters. When they were there, Pippa downloaded a part of Stargazer's programming into the computer system."