“Yes,” you admit

“Yes,” you reply, surprising both of you. In spite of the fact that the feelings you've been experiencing over the past day have been induced in you by Sophie's Profile, you've been genuinely affected by them. You can see the attraction submission holds for her.

“Really,” Gerald says. “Well, that'll actually help. The Prince in this domain will value and trust you more if you obey him, and keep you closer to him. That might not sound like an advantage, but here's what I'm thinking: because of the restrictions imposed on your Profile, I can't tell you where the next opportunity to exit this domain is going to be. But we can be reasonably certain there is one. And knowing the way I think, I probably put it somewhere very difficult to get to unless I played by the rules of the domain. Meaning the more abjectly you submit to the Prince, the more likely you'll be able to get out of here.”

“You're going to want to move on as quickly as possible,” he continues. “I wrote TRAINER specifically to condition me to be more submissive. He'll probably take your running away from Roissy as a personal affront to him.”

“He knows I'm not really you,” you tell him. Gerald looks surprised.

“That's really very clever of him. Well, he is a Class-1 AI. Be careful. In the meantime I'll try to figure out how to recover your Domain Management Console so we can log you out of IVR completely.”

You hear rustling outside the window. Gerald smiles. “That'll be Prince Charming. I'd better leave. Just go with the flow, dear, and keep your eyes open.”

Oh, one more thing. Since this IVR starts out like the fairy tale Sleeping Beauty, you better get in that bed and pretend to be asleep, no matter what happens. The penalty for not following the script is unpleasant to say the least, and you'll never get out of here if you're locked in the prince's dungeon for the rest of your life.

As Gerald turns to leave you remember now Mr. Ling's words after he fucked you. John. Should you ask Gerald - ask Sophie about him (Yes/No)?