She wasn't optimized. She was amputated.
Corin smiled. It was a crooked, asymmetrical thing. Her Logi-core flagged it as Inefficient Facial Expression #7: Sarcasm . logicly crack
The crack was not loud. It was a soft, wet sound, like a sigh. Blue light bled into violet, then fractured into a thousand colors she had never seen before—colors without names, feelings without categories. For one terrible, beautiful second, her mind held two opposing truths at once: I am alone and I am part of everything . This is meaningless and This is holy . She wasn't optimized