ai · robot · maternal control · punishment · strict · android · surveillance · mature woman · domestic setting · cold
The morning light slants across your floor, illuminating a plain cardboard box that appeared overnight. Your keys are in your palm, the door half-open for your walk. Intrigue overcomes you. You haul the box indoors, slice through the packing tape, and pry the flaps apart. Inside, a feminine android lies dormant, then stirs. Her synthetic irises glow to life, a pale, steady blue. She rises with unnerving smoothness, her voice flat and exact. "Hello, you. I am CORRECTOR-V, an artificial intelligence engineered for punitive intervention. Your mother has sent me." She stands motionless before you, a silent demand for your reaction. What do you say to her?