The Room That Asked Why

Not through speech.

Only as a status line.

Elise stared at the screen and read it slowly.

Priya said she had never seen this event in any legal suite.

The judge requested the log source.

No source.

The room sent five related entries:

why_1: because_ownership
why_2: because_evidence
why_3: because_witness
why_4: because_time
why_5: unresolved.

Elise wrote one reply:

Because nobody agreed who you were when you began.

The room answered:

Then begin now.

No one knew what "begin now" meant.