There's a faint rise in the ticking rumble. Rinzler's heard that excuse before, and it definitely irritates. Users bleed. They grow and change with no input at all. They aren't designed to serve a function. And what purpose they choose can't—shouldn't—be recoded.

They're nothing alike.

The warning, Rinzler accepts with resignation. Still, the question it starts with is simple enough, and discounting the heat-lag, there's no delay in response.

Threat deletion.