[As solutions go, the comment log isn't ideal. None of this is input he's meant to take, just to be managed by, and if her scribbling in the metaphorical margins won't affect his systems, it's still nothing the mainframe's usually allowed to read. He works around that limit silently, letting the familiar exercise distract from the frayed, uneven feeling of finding gaps in memory and code. Or the knowledge that by all rights, there shouldn't be enough left of him to notice.]
...
[Zam Wesell. A starship. A portal?-- but... he hadn't boarded anything. Memory errors shouldn't cover that, unless the damage had been done separately from the format. Though considering how little of his systems he can feel, maybe that assumption isn't wholly wrong.]
What am I here for?
[Basic data request. Not too far outside parameters, he hopes. The vocal tone is as steady as he can make it--so, not completely, right now.]
no subject
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[Zam Wesell. A starship. A portal?-- but... he hadn't boarded anything. Memory errors shouldn't cover that, unless the damage had been done separately from the format. Though considering how little of his systems he can feel, maybe that assumption isn't wholly wrong.]
What am I here for?
[Basic data request. Not too far outside parameters, he hopes. The vocal tone is as steady as he can make it--so, not completely, right now.]