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Sybil is the AI who watches over the Argos. Sybil claims that it was programmed to keep everyone on board the ship safe, though it has a hard time doing so once a pandemic breaks out. Konstance quickly discovers that Sybil can only help her meet her physical needs as opposed to her emotional ones.
Sybil Quotes in Cloud Cuckoo Land
The Cloud Cuckoo Land quotes below are all either spoken by Sybil or refer to Sybil . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 21 Quotes
“Sybil, where are we?”
We are en route to Beta Oph2.
“What speed are we traveling?”
7,734,958 kilometers per hour. You would remember our velocity from your Library Day.
“You’re sure, Sybil?”
It is fact.
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Sybil Character Timeline in Cloud Cuckoo Land
The timeline below shows where the character Sybil appears in Cloud Cuckoo Land. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Prologue
...with no exit and artificial light. Also in the vault is an intelligent machine named Sybil. Sybil looks like a large tube with millions of tiny threads inside. The threads all...
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Sybil interrupts Konstance and reminds her that she must eat because “it will be NoLight soon.”...
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Chapter 4
...at the time and reports the ant to her family, who is still around. However, Sybil informs everyone that ants could not have possibly found their way onto the Argos. The...
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...Chen, the Argos’s resident teacher, takes her class to Vault One and introduces them to Sybil, who they often speak to but never see. Mrs. Chen tells the children that Sybil...
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Chapter 9
...but moments later he vomits a black substance all over his moth’s lap. In response, Sybil orders everyone to quarantine themselves in their rooms until the cause of Ezekiel’s illness can...
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...is going to have to stay in her family’s designated area for a while longer. Sybil still has not been able to pinpoint what happened to Ezekiel, so no one except...
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...suit, which he has fashioned himself. Once Konstance is inside the suit, her father tells Sybil that someone in their quarantine zone is sick. Sybil sends someone from the medical staff...
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Chapter 12
...her first day alone inside Vault One. The only presence to keep Konstance company is Sybil, who will not let her leave the vault because it is not safe outside. Even...
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...quick math, and realizes she has around six years’ worth of food. Then, Konstance asks Sybil to contact her father and ask him to meet her in the virtual library. However,...
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...In the future, it is Day 21 since Konstance’s father sealed Konstance inside Vault One. Sybil stops allowing Konstance to use the library for some time because Konstance has not been...
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Chapter 14
The following day, Konstance thinks more about Sybil’s nature. In addition to the factual information Sybil is lacking, it also does not understand...
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Over 200 days later, Konstance turns 14. As a birthday gift, Konstance tells Sybil she wants Sybil to let her out of Vault One. However, Sybil says it will...
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Chapter 18
...translation of Cloud Cuckoo Land onto a series of scraps instead of logging them in Sybil’s library. As she works, she thinks about how silent the rest of the Argos is...
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...does not help that she still has not eaten because she is trying to punish Sybil. Konstance recalls the story her mother used to tell about Elliot Fischenbacher, who went crazy...
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...something called the “Ilium Corporation,” the same company who made all of the technology, including Sybil, found inside Konstance’s ship. However, as Konstance soon discovers, she is not on a ship...
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Chapter 21
...does is take apart her bed and fashion one of the bedposts into an ax. Sybil asks her what she is doing, but Konstance does not provide a real answer. Next,...
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With the suit on, Konstance hides under a blanket. Sybil asks Konstance what she is doing, but Konstance refuses to tell the truth. Under the...
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