[Is he alright? It's a good question, 9S realizes with wry bemusement. He's not entirely sure whether he's got the answer to that, between so many factors at play. Many of those he doesn't seem to have much power to do anything about, but at least he can address the matter of what this man had just said]
What do you mean by "other humans"?
[There's a guarded nature about his tone that'd be difficult to overlook, a skepticism that bespeaks an analytical mind. He's trying to make sense of something he finds incongruous with his experience — although what doesn't fit that description, now?
He might've simply misunderstood. After all, he knows his programming assures that he will always long for something that he can't reach. It seems most probable that he'd latched onto the interpretation that best suited that desire.
And so, he decides he'll get his confirmation of this, not that this would explain what the man actually is if not a human]
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What do you mean by "other humans"?
[There's a guarded nature about his tone that'd be difficult to overlook, a skepticism that bespeaks an analytical mind. He's trying to make sense of something he finds incongruous with his experience — although what doesn't fit that description, now?
He might've simply misunderstood. After all, he knows his programming assures that he will always long for something that he can't reach. It seems most probable that he'd latched onto the interpretation that best suited that desire.
And so, he decides he'll get his confirmation of this, not that this would explain what the man actually is if not a human]