I suspected you might be a synthetic life form. Aside from the lack of exhaustion after such an ordeal it's...in the way you carry yourself. In my universe, we have a species of synthetics and it takes time for machine learning to allow new AI to eventually emulate smoother moments with their mechforms.

[Querl tilts his head with an abrupt bird-like movement, now more interested, paying closer attention.]

And your skin... a bioplastic, I assume? That would be my first choice if attempting to emulate organic skin short of using actual flash-cloned cutaneous tissue.

[That it might be rude to ask personal questions doesn't occur to Brainy. That's what happens when someone is raised by unfeeling non-sentient robots. The social skills are...not there.]