Chapter 2: The Muse & The Seed
2.1: The Lexicon of AI Assistance Seven Hundred 7:00 The ceiling above her was alive as always... It was a misty dawn with first light's god rays filling the whole room. Aria had a customer meeting at 8:00. She had just enough time to wake up the sleeping giant Kael, and rush to the Studio. AI has taken up the task of making sure that Kael would be on time to school. Its buzzer drone alarm clock, with proximity sensors, works as a charm, waking up any sleeping giant... Eight Hundred 08:00 Alex was already lost in the past. His personal study chamber, a smaller, cozier echo of Aria’s art studio, hummed with a different kind of energy. Instead of spectral transposers, holographic timelines spun lazily around a central obsidian desk. Today’s quest: the fragmented cuneiform tablets recovered from the Euphrates delta, detailing an obscure, pre-Collapse trading guild. The text was riddles within riddles, filled with linguistic quirks that defied conventional translation algorithm...