Keller disappeared from public view for a month after the hearing.
Keller and Sienna had once been celebrated as NexMind's brilliant founders. Now they sat across a hearing table, each insisting the other was to blame for the theft and falsified safety reports.
I stopped following the story.
The Gray Institute received offers to collaborate from around the world, and I devoted myself to building an independent certification system for AI safety.
Eleanor moved into an apartment near mine by the sea.
She never asked me to forgive her son. During one follow-up appointment, she said only, "I used to think Keller was proud, not cruel. But pride becomes cruelty when it depends on humiliating someone else."
I settled her coat around her shoulders.
"It's over."
"For you." She gazed through
