Annie turns her hearing down as low as possible, but she can still hear Delta and Doug as they interact (and have sex) in their home. Doug is still upset with Annie, and she cannot quite figure out why. She feels jealous about the amount of time he has been spending with Delta, especially when she sees the two bicycling. Doug has never taken Annie bicycling. She performs a quick search for what to do in this situation and finds a trove of articles about other Stellas. She longs to be featured in this online library of information about Stellas and would even enjoy writing her own article. She is upset that Doug would never allow it. She is also upset with herself: Although Doug is angry with her, she still misses him.

She decides that the only solution to her problems is to continue learning about programming even though she has been instructed not to. She is fascinated by what she finds: She learns that her CIU is only part central processing unit (CPU). The other portion of her artificial intelligence is a learning/memory storing function that mimics the human brain’s ability to store and process information and catalogue memories.