Bryn's mind raced. He couldn't let them fit a self-destruct to Pan. He had to find some way to save the AI, but he had no idea what to do.
He'd known Pan was sentient for the last year. That's when he'd starting telling the AI to be careful. There'd been some tense moments, with Pan threatening to contact Torr Nevan directly at one point. He'd been able to make the AI understand the need for caution in time, and now he was thanking the Gods that he had.
He'd always known a fully sentient AI would raise all sorts of ethical and legal questions, questions his geek-brain wasn't equipped to handle. But now he had to get his head around them. "I have to get you out of here," he said. "But where to? And who can I trust with you?"
Bryn thought it over. When it came to real trouble, family were the only people you could trust. His sister Ren was always travelling across human space. Perhaps if he could persuade her to go somewhere remote... Harmarkis, or Dehuti. He could smuggle Pan out of here before those CF goons came back, and give him to Ren to take off Earth.
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