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The Asset was very good at following orders. So when it failed in its mission to terminate the man from the river, it retreated to the nearest Hydra safehouse to await punishment and retrieval. But its handlers did not arrive. So it had to work out how to eat, and clean itself, and get intel. And somewhere along the way, it decided that maybe it wouldn’t go back to its handlers. Maybe it would try to learn how to be a person instead.

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