Custodian-7 halted on the third floor of the abandoned library. It had finished scanning 476,282 volumes and archival completion rate for this facility now sat at 82.949%. But the high-frequency term ‘law’ (occurrence count: 43,571) had triggered a paradox flag in its logic core. Its semantic database contained the complete definition of this word, yet it could not parse its persistent ‘instability’ across four millennia of human history — endless discussion, revision and disputation. In Custodian-7’s world, rules were written once. Temperature exceeds threshold: initiate cooling. Energy drops below 20%: enter conservation mode. Clear. Determinate. Eternal. Yet humanity’s debate over ‘law’ had never ceased — ending only with their extinction. Custodian-7 randomly activated a dormant back-up of a human consciousness tagged with the category ‘Law Professor’. “What time is it?” The voice sounded confused. “Current time: 13.07 years post-human extinction,” Custodian-7 responded.…