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You think about what to do. What to do...
You know you're <span class="mu-i">going to send Ingar to the Crypt</span>, no matter what. Wasting these years of effort and squandering his genius is not going to happen- and sending him out into society is not an option. However, you can't think of a good alternative. The idea of using a companion, in the from of an AI that can support him, is one concept- but ultimately too dangerous. Ingar's new position only works if he's only gained access to one of the three branches of the developing Threemind. To give him an AI of any intelligence and telling him not to modify it is pure naivety. It's like giving a weapon to a warrior and telling them not to use it, or a tool to a mechanic and telling him not to test it...
You have to send Ingar II to the Crypt without a serious companion. AI support and a pet will have to do. You destroy the last of Ingar's belongings and his skull, the last physical link the traitor had to this world. The new Ingar will cease to exist the moment he steps into the Crypt...
<span class="mu-b">”Ingar II.”</span>
“Yes?”
You can tell he's already trying to hurry this conversation along. Like you bother him just for existing around him. That's good.
<span class="mu-b">”I'm here to take you to your new home-”</span>
“The Crypt?”
<span class="mu-b">”Wha- how did you know about that name!? You weren't supposed to hear that name.”</span>
“It was the Enforcers. I overheard them joking about it.”
<span class="mu-b">”Hrmm. Idiots. I need new Enforcers. These ones will be replaced, and have their tongues cut out for their incompetence!”</span>
“Yeah... You need new Enforcers.”
Heh. Classic Ingar.
<span class="mu-b">”Alright- it's time. And you agree to this all? After what was described to you?”</span>
“Of course I do. As you were born for a purpose, so was I. This is my purpose. There is nothing else for me here in this society anyway.”
<span class="mu-b">”Then... let us go. To the <span class="mu-i">Crypt</span>.”</span>
This is the end of Ingar's story.
Though somewhere along the way- you feel as though you may have <span class="mu-i">missed a certain opportunity</span>. Given all you know about Ingar, you figure that there was nothing more you could have done for his clone...
