[ he offers a small smile at the musing almost-question, clearly not bothered in the least by it. it's a fair thing to wonder, if one isn't familiar with connor's earth and how it's progressed. ]

Humans found additional uses for us. We became companions and caretakers, sexual partners. Police officers, soldiers, professors.. In general, humans seemed to prefer human faces, even knowing that we're artificial, and that we were property.

[ he glances away, back to the display, expression smoothing into blankness. ]

There were ways to tell, even without our identifying marks. It's simply more difficult without taking us apart. [ he knows all the ways to tell a deviant from a machine. .. especially now that he's a deviant himself. a.. person, as strange as that thought still is.

but on the subjects of olympia and wyver: ] I've been attempting to get caught up on what's been happening in the last several months-- [ mostly so he has context and understanding. ] --but I must admit it's difficult without the capability to connect myself to local networks.