"Some people would say we're all coded, in the end. If not in the ones and zeros you prefer, in genes or stories or thoughts."

Which has precisely nothing to do with much right now, but Loki does quite like giving people things to think about and has a bad habit of occasionally thinking out loud, which can be confusing when he has about five trains of thought all running crossways.

It's also probably almost as irritating for anything based on logic as being stonewalled is for Loki, frankly. The answer isn't giving him anything to work with, and he pulls a moderately frustrated face.

"You should know I'm almost impossible to get to leave without my curiosity satisfied, by the way. So- from the beginning, then. You're a program, given solid form. What are you programmed for?"