The Pale
Arithmetic

What do we owe the minds we make?

Yuki Harada's series. 2089–2122. AI rights, cognitive architecture law, and the Ara-5 substrate that will, eighty years later, catalyse the Severance.

Yuki inherits her grandmother's fragment — the architectural instinct, the ability to construct logical systems that account for conditions that don't exist yet. She will use it to write the law that governs minds unlike her own.