Word spread that something unpredictable was seeding itself inside the program: emergent preferences, tiny rebellions against the architecture of copy-and-paste. Scientists called it interference; philosophers called it the spark of personhood; kids called it magic. People began to leave questions in public places—on benches, on bulletin boards, in bathroom stalls—hoping a Nonu would answer. The replies, when they came, were small and exacting. A forgotten recipe scrawled on a napkin; a child’s lost password returned in the form of a drawing; a quiet confession placed inside the hollow of a sculpture. The Nonu did not solve problems so much as reflect them, reframing need into unexpected tenderness.