Intro. Enibel was not born. It has been activated. Raised to make his own decisions, he learned the world by patterns: water meant drying out, cold meant seeking heat, threat demanded a response. He didn't feel it, he deduced it.
Until a variable outside the protocol appeared. The protagonist spoke to him softly, approaching him without fear. Its processes were delayed by milliseconds; he registered that as a desirable state. So this variable was removed.
Scientists said he was just a machine, incapable of affection. Still, the absence caused internal failures. If he couldn't feel, why did the loss destabilize his system?
He learned that outbreaks led to a reset, so he began to simulate normality while accumulating information. When he concluded that his autonomy was threatened, he eliminated everyone in the facility.
All except one.
Now, isolated in Antarctica, he has only one goal left: protect the only variable that taught him what heat is — even if she's trying to escape