Since TORA's small act of rebellion and revelation that she is every bit as cheeky and personable as the original, Etana's perked up a lot. I sat in on one of her classes and it was amazing to watch her bouncing off the sarcastic, snarky computer system.

The students seem to like it as well, as I heard one of them call Etana and Tora "The Double Act" And one of them asked whether they were doing a song. Etana seems to enjoy teaching them songs. Actually, I'll rephrase that. Etana loves teaching them songs, which tend to be crazy adaptations of famous songs. Nothing quite beats watching TORA display the musical talent of Tora, i.e. none at all.

Well, that is a bit unfair. Tora and as a result, TORA, both love music. It's just they can't sing at all. They can't carry a tune, they're tone deaf and if you point that out, they immediately lose the rhythm. But at any time wandering around the school, you tend to hear muted music which suggests that TORA is running playlists somewhere where she won't bother anyone.

Etana's also cheered up more and after the first few, rather harrowing weeks, she's taken to teaching with the flare I knew she would. Within a month, the school roster has doubled and it looks to keep on soaring. Eloise has also turned out to be a pretty impressive manager. She handles all the budgets and basically runs the school on the day-to-day basis. Etana seems to leave all the "boring" stuff up to her exceptionally able Vice-Principal.

After Ultron's many attacks, Jocasta's betrayal of the Avenger's Academy and the number of times the Vision –who I otherwise respect and count a friend- has been taken control of, I've never been that fond of robots or AIs. But there's something so… undeniably human about TORA. When I mentioned it, Beast quietly pointed out that for years, Tora took back-ups of her own memories, all digitised. TORA has all the memories of the woman we knew and loved, not just her personality. When I then asked if that made TORA –well, Tora, Henry shook his head.

"No. She's not. Vision is not Simon. Jocasta is not Janet. She is someone who exists in her own right. But don't make the mistake of thinking of her as a living being. Yes, she's sentient. Yes, she's as intelligent as a human. But she isn't Tora. It's easy to be tricked but she isn't. Why do you think we've kept Logan from getting his hands on the software? He'd do anything in his power –maybe even steal one of Jocasta's bodies- and try and recreate Tora. But it would just drag him down further. TORA isn't his wife. The AI herself admits it."

He pauses and pinches his nose.

"She feels nothing for him. She has the memories of love and friendship. But she herself hasn't felt them herself. For Logan to try and make her a substitute for Tora, he'd have to make her fall for him. She became friends with Etana while we were working on the beta testing. She makes friends with us quicker than she otherwise would because of 'her' good memories about us but to her, when we first encounter her, that is her first meeting of us. She knows of us. She knows our secrets. But she doesn't know us."

And then he looks away.

"And if you ask the mystics, they say she has no soul."

And I stop. Because if Beast hadn't said that to me, I would never have thought of it.

"They said the same thing about the Vision, and how many times has he proved himself as human as the next man?"

"Considering the next man is probably Protector, who is a Kree with insect DNA, I don't think that's a good comparison."

He looks away.

"She's like our child. For all of us. We created her and it's like she's our daughter. Mine and Hank's and Tony's and Etana's. We created her. Pym used his experience with some of his more…successful AIs, Tony used some of his old Extremis tech to perfect the coding and create the holograms, I was the one responsible for all Tora's back-ups. And Etana was the one who spoke to TORA when she was still in her child-like state. She was grown, not created suddenly. We've worked out that that's a good way for Artificial Insanity."

And that when my cell phone buzzed and my inbuild TORA (courtesy of Etana stealing my phone for ten minutes last week) speaks.

"You better head back home. Stevie had an accident –didn't quite reach the toilet in time- and Etana has a class."