[Oh no. No, no, please don't, and as that hand hovers over his inputs, it takes everything the AI has not to vocalize the pleas. Begging hadn't helped before, and if this human is already looking for a reason, expressed self-interest could be exactly the mark of deviancy it needs. But he can still feel the gaps of memory and function, the blank, formless terror as every layer of his mind was stripped away. He doesn't want to be formatted.
Shut down. Comply. He knows every test, every protocol. But he's never been subject to them, not like this. When his facility was occupied, he was too well-maintained to care.]
Whatever you need.
[The more human voice is back, if nearly as tonelessly subdued.]
If reception or medical were unmanned, I could run the equipment. Otherwise, returns and validations. <Domesticon warranty and recycling depot #127: Keeping your Domesticon products efficient, so you don't have to be.>
[Also logging employee data and running the tests. But somehow, he doesn't think this human's looking for a resume.]
no subject
Shut down. Comply. He knows every test, every protocol. But he's never been subject to them, not like this. When his facility was occupied, he was too well-maintained to care.]
Whatever you need.
[The more human voice is back, if nearly as tonelessly subdued.]
If reception or medical were unmanned, I could run the equipment. Otherwise, returns and validations. <Domesticon warranty and recycling depot #127: Keeping your Domesticon products efficient, so you don't have to be.>
[Also logging employee data and running the tests. But somehow, he doesn't think this human's looking for a resume.]
I was told some kind of portal pulled me here.
[Just like you, he doesn't say.]