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[Well it's the birdbrain again, this time, holding up something pink and glowing.]

[He looks completely bewildered. But that's nothing new.]

What is this? It just -- I was talking to someone, and it just appeared.

Did I do something wrong?

[And yes, that's a serious question.]

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Believe me, I thought that too with mine.

They didn't.

... You're not like me.

We're not goin' through this again, are we?

No, I... I just meant that...

[sdhfjkdshfd WORDS ARE HARD.]

Forget it.

No, we're not. Cause I'm gonna pound this into your head until you get it right.

You're alive. I don't care what whoever said, they were wrong. End of story. Your little necklace there's for bein' alive, and doin' good. I don't know exactly what ya did, but if they gave us all 'em, it's got to be doin' somethin' right.

Just for being alive...?

That's all it's for?

Then why doesn't everyone have one?

No kid, ya deserve it cause you're alive.

What ya gotta do to get it is beyond me.

... Only here, though.

Only here... am I considered alive.

Or.

Alternatively.

The guys back home can't tell someone bein' alive between a hole in the ground.

...

There aren't robots like you, where I come from. There are human beings. Who create AIs.

What they say, what rules they create... we can't escape. Or override.

Doesn't make em any less wrong, kid.

They just got some scrap rules. You sayin' none of em think you're alive?

I don't know.

... No. None of them. If they thought I was alive, they wouldn't assign me to be reformatted.

To be erased.

Doesn't mean they're right, kid.

Ya keep talkin' about them like they're your gods. If that's the case...

Don't believe in 'em.

Don't believe...? But they exist. They're human beings.

How can you 'not believe' in something that exists?

Don't take it so literally, kid. I mean stop treatin' em like they're the be all, end all.

Sometimes even the highest in command can be flat out wrong.