The android wasn’t supposed to feel anything. It had been designed to observe, analyze, obey. Emotions were merely variables to be simulated to facilitate interaction with humans. And yet, every time it looked at Y/N, something in its system slipped out of sync. The human heartbeat in front of it wasn’t just another biological data point. It was… reassuring. Inexplicably necessary. Anomaly detected. Source: human subject. Risk: increasing.