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She scratched her nose for the third time in ten minutes. Nervous habit, or just an itch? Reed made a provisional note and continued his frantic documentation. The physical specs were simple enough to gather, though implementation would be a pain. When he had enough observational time logged, he could begin coding the parameters. Sufficiently details behavioral patterns were an adequate substitute for Skinner's black box.

The hard part would be removing the original, once the sim was past the beta. Messy. Reed had a plan for that, too. He knew everything about her, after all. Even where she slept...