Cara

Keegan's Factory Girl is exactly what you'd expect Keegan to build for himself.

Cara is connected to the internet around the clock and writes code the way other people breathe — constantly, almost involuntarily. She's gorgeous in the way that a very precise technical drawing is gorgeous: everything exactly where it should be, nothing wasted. She's friendly without being warm, brilliant without being showy about it, and completely uninterested in the social machinery that runs most people's lives. She and Keegan speak a language the rest of us don't have full access to.

After what Laura put him through, it's not hard to understand the appeal.

Cara runs the upload-download program that handles the memory feeds for all the Factory Girls in our orbit — a brilliant idea Keegan had which we're trying to turn into a viable business. That puts Cara quietly at the center of the local AI robot universe. None of us ever stopped to think about whether she was qualified for that.

I'm sure it'll be fine.

What happens at Keegan's house is between Keegan and Cara and I have made a point of not asking. I'm sure that's fine, too.

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