public class Kaelen extends Mortal { private boolean lonely = true; private boolean loved = false; private int purpose = 0; }

“Patch him,” Kaelen said quietly. “Deploy the ‘Despair’ microservice. Drain his stamina to zero. Set his ‘hope’ variable to false.”

“Show me his class hierarchy,” Kaelen said.

Argus_the_Unbroken extends Rebel { private int defiance = 98; private boolean charismatic = true; public void incite() { ... } }

The next morning, he called for Lia. “I want to see the source code for the Imperial Family.”

Kaelen leaned back. The empire was stable. The logs showed zero errors.

// This class is deprecated. No longer supported. Please migrate to 'Citizen_Base.class'.

The screen filled with a single line of code:

He shouted into the void: “Show me the root class!”