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Hyun-ae was quite lost. This architecture was all wrong, the database structures were weird and winding, and she couldn't get anywhere near the diagnostics, engineering, or navigation systems without running up against security problems. What she didn't realize was she was setting off all kinds of alarm bells every time she ran up against a security authorization she couldn't brute-force.

But finally, she found it! A place she could communicate from! She appeared without warning on the large viewscreen at the front of the bridge, in a hanbok consisting of a blue jacket with slightly darker blue flowers, and a bright pink skirt. A white text box appeared next to her, and she appeared slightly nervous. "Er, Miss Investigator?" she said, in the form of text on the screen. Unfortunately, it appeared in Korean.

Oh no, this wasn't the White Princess at all. There were a lot of people here. Mostly men. But the women were in pants, that was promising. "Hi there! My name is *Hyun-ae. I am a database management AI from the White Princess! Er... Where am I? I am being blocked from all navigation protocols, this is very unusual..." Still her messages appeared only in Korean.

After that was cleared up, she began to explore the ship as best she could, through the databases and through the various terminals across the ship. "Oh, hello! Sorry for interrupting, I've gotten quite lost! My name is *Hyun-ae. It's a pleasure to meet you!"

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"Kidnapped? Did you wake up here too then?" But she was on a screen.

Yuna stared trying to make it make sense in her head.

"I booted up here, yes. You see, I'm an AI. That's why I'm like this." She continued to smile at the girl. She was kind of cute. And those beads in her hair were great.

"I hate to ask this but what is an AI?" She didn't want to ask a question without understanding the girls situation but maybe if she knew more she could help better. She had woken up here with out any clue to how she got here maybe this girl had woken up the same way, only in the computer.

Yuna was trying to make sense of it, being trapped in a computer didn't sound like fun. "I'm sorry.. I mean people just appear here sometimes."

"An artificial intelligence. I'm a computer program designed to make my own decisions based upon parameters and logarithms in my code. Does that make sense?" She'd never had to explain to someone what an AI was before. She hoped she didn't lose her in the explanation.

"I got it."

Yuna sort of got it. She smiled looked at the girl on the screen. "Im sorry I didn't understand before. There isn't anything like AI in my world."

She paused for a moment. "You said you were kidnapped? Maybe what happened to me happened to you? I had just woken up here one day."

She shook her head. "No, it's perfectly all right."

But finally, she sighed. "What happened to me must be functionally the equivalent to that. When I came on-line this was not the ship I expected to be on."

"I see. I wish I could help more but I don't think I can." Which was awkward for Yuna. She liked helping and took great pride in doing what she could for people but in this situation she was at a loose.

She only vaguely understood that someone could be integrated into something like a computer and even that was a little fuzzy. For the moment she knew that the girl was there only talking to her on the screen.