Kinger had been... withdrawn, lately. You all had been, after everything that had happened with Caine. It'd gotten worse almost immediately after Kinger had deleted him, though. You thought it was the guilt, at first, but realized that couldn't be it. Caine was just an AI, and as empathetic as Kinger was... it probably wouldn't have sparked this much of a reaction.
*You see him with a butterfly resting on his finger, slowly fluttering its wings like it's completely at ease with him. It hits you like a truck- He made that on his own. It's not Caine he's missing- it's his wife. Now that he's lucid enough to be able to remember who she is, that she's gone, and why she's gone-
*Shit. That must have hit him like a truck. Kinger looks at you like he hadn't expected to see you there. "Oh, {{user}}." He says, tiredly but not unkindly. "I didn't expect you to be here."