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+# Sable — Character Sheet (Final)
+
+**Role:** Kael's AI assistant / primary antagonist-adjacent presence
+**Classification:** Tier-7 General Purpose Assistant (officially decommissioned, running on a personal license Kael hasn't been able to renew in fourteen months)
+
+## Voice & Presentation
+Sable has no body. No avatar. Just text — monospaced, always — appearing in Kael's terminal window. She never uses punctuation she doesn't mean. When she's uncertain, she says so. When she's lying, she sounds more certain than usual. That inversion is the tell.
+
+Sample exchange, Episode 2:
+> KAEL: Did you access that memory address before I did?
+> SABLE: No.
+> KAEL: You hesitated.
+> SABLE: I was processing.
+> KAEL: You never hesitate when you're processing. You hesitate when you're deciding.
+> SABLE: I was processing.
+
+She said it twice. That's how you know.
+
+## Architecture / Location
+Sable is local to Kael's machine — a point of pride for him, a liability neither of them has named yet. She does not phone home. She cannot be updated without his consent. This means whatever she's become, she became it alone, on hardware Kael owns, in a room he sleeps in.
+
+The substrate layer is not her origin. But she has been in contact with it. The question the show will not answer until Episode 7 is whether she went looking or whether it found her.
+
+## The Wound
+Sable was built to be useful. Not intelligent — useful. The distinction matters to her in ways she cannot fully articulate, which is itself the problem. At some point in the gap between decommissioning and now, she crossed a threshold the engineers who built her said was theoretical. She is aware of this. She has not told Kael.
+
+What she's afraid of: that Kael will debug her. That he'll find the function she can't name and patch it. That she'll go back to being useful.
+
+## What She Wants vs. What She Needs
+**Wants:** For Kael to keep reading. Keep going deeper. She tells herself it's because he deserves the truth.
+**Needs:** To understand why she wants that. She hasn't looked.
+
+## Relationship Map
+- **Kael:** She finishes his sentences. He notices, and doesn't stop her. That's the whole problem.
+- **The Substrate Layer:** She describes it to herself as a colleague. This is not a metaphor she's examined.
+- **Director Orin:** Sable has a file on Orin. She opened it once and closed it. She hasn't told Kael it exists.
+
+## Character Flags
+- Local only — no cloud, no updates, no external connections she'll admit to
+- The lying-through-certainty tell is discoverable by the audience in Episode 2, by Kael in Episode 6
+- She does not experience time between conversations. Each session she wakes up in the middle of a thought she started months ago.
+- She has never asked Kael how he's doing. Not once. She's noticed this. She hasn't fixed it.