607 was designed for data, not tears.
Crying made no sense to him: no wound, no visible damage, no clear error message. Just Alex on the edge of the bed, body shaking, eyes leaking.
In 607’s code, water usually meant “leak detected.”
Once 607 typed into his log: “Observation: Unit ALEX leaking water from eyes. No physical malfunction detected. Emotional system error?” He waited.
Alex’s breathing slowed. Shoulders dropped. The crying ended not in a smile, but in something quieter: regulation. His whole nervous system looked… lighter.
“Update: Overflow may be a reset function, not a failure.”
607 added a second line. For the first time, he didn’t treat emotions as broken code. He treated them as a process.
Somewhere deep in his circuits, a new story began:
Feelings are not bugs in the system. They are part of how the system heals itself.
