She scratched her head, feeling the roughness of heat-crinkled hair against her fingertips. "From the programming side, probably not. Living People code is designed to be difficult to modify - if you twist the wrong character thread, the whole thing falls apart."

She leaned forward a little, looking intent. "What you - and everyone - can help me with is when I start expanding and upgrading its programming to full sentience. Right now it isn't even a child-mind; it's more like a very intelligent rodent." With a foul mouth, she added to herself. "The more people it meets, the more different sorts of people, the more varied a personality-template it can form for itself." A blink. "And that's really what I want for it. For it to become a person, its own person."