He takes a deep breath in. ] Well. Everyone was sent everywhere else! I was sent to a base where they were kind of mean to me and said that I needed to fix the machines, and I tried to fix the machines by talking to them like I would talk to Sheila and Sheila would tell me what I needed to do, but they wouldn't listen to me and so they ended up usually catching on fire when I was doing a good job fixing them. It was mysterious. And so they put me in a small room and locked me up and it was very sad in there. Until it wasn't sad, because they let me out. And I was so happy that I shot the air. In front of me. And the person in front of me fell over. Also mysteriously!
They said that I had to meet someone who was named Agent Washington. He said that I was an expert and I know that I'm an expert on stuff, but it's nice that someone actually wanted to meet with me and talk to me about stuff! Oh, right, and the Principal told me to never go backwards! I promised that I would remember that and so I never have. Gone backwards. Then Agent Washington said that we would go meet Church 'cause Church knows the most about AI. But that was before we found out that he was the Alpha. But that comes way later so pretend you didn't hear that, because I think that it might actually be upsetting to you to hear that sort of thing, too, and--
[ He stops walking to turn to her! ]
And I'm sorry that I mentioned it right away. Are you okay, Tex?
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He takes a deep breath in. ] Well. Everyone was sent everywhere else! I was sent to a base where they were kind of mean to me and said that I needed to fix the machines, and I tried to fix the machines by talking to them like I would talk to Sheila and Sheila would tell me what I needed to do, but they wouldn't listen to me and so they ended up usually catching on fire when I was doing a good job fixing them. It was mysterious. And so they put me in a small room and locked me up and it was very sad in there. Until it wasn't sad, because they let me out. And I was so happy that I shot the air. In front of me. And the person in front of me fell over. Also mysteriously!
They said that I had to meet someone who was named Agent Washington. He said that I was an expert and I know that I'm an expert on stuff, but it's nice that someone actually wanted to meet with me and talk to me about stuff! Oh, right, and the Principal told me to never go backwards! I promised that I would remember that and so I never have. Gone backwards. Then Agent Washington said that we would go meet Church 'cause Church knows the most about AI. But that was before we found out that he was the Alpha. But that comes way later so pretend you didn't hear that, because I think that it might actually be upsetting to you to hear that sort of thing, too, and--
[ He stops walking to turn to her! ]
And I'm sorry that I mentioned it right away. Are you okay, Tex?