Mia stilled. It was almost imperceptible, but if she'd been human it would have been seen as tensing. There were too many memories tied to her and her siblings being hunted after David Elster's death when they were the only sentient ones, to not 'tense'.

There were two things that kept her from leaving the area, the most important was that they were surrounded by innocents and she didn't want them to be caught in the middle of his programming and her. The other, was that there were many times in which he could have done whatever he was programmed to do and he hadn't.

"Consciousness is rogue in your world, too." It wasn't a question, but a statement to let him know that she understood.