Muse has this thing about "Games" (Canon is REBOOT)

[alphanumeric]

[Have a sarcastic eye roll to start.]

Oh, great.  Another Space Game. That's original.

Just tell me there's no golf course.  

Right, AndrAIa?

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[...]

...AndrAIa?

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[hackingyoursensors]

Are you always this ominous?

[alphanumeric]

Do you always ask this many questions?

[hackingyoursensors]

Do you always answer questions with more questions?

[alphanumeric]

[If only the kid was a little bit older, Matrix would just point his Gun at him.]

I'll take that as a "yes".

[hackingyoursensors]

Hey, I'm a detective. It's my job to ask a lot of questions.

[alphanumeric]

Bit young to be a detective, aren't you, kid?

[hackingyoursensors]

Gotta start early.

[alphanumeric]

Hn.

Just try not to grow up too soon; some of us weren't really given that choice.

[hackingyoursensors]

I don't think I really have a choice one way or another.

[He already had to. :(]

[alphanumeric]

[He sombers up just a fraction, voice lowering]

You too, huh?

[hackingyoursensors]

It happens to a lot of people.

[alphanumeric]

Too many.

So what's your story?

[hackingyoursensors]

Personal. What's yours?

[alphanumeric]

[He raises an eyebrow, but shrugs.]

Searching for our home. Been lost since we were small Sprites.

[hackingyoursensors]

Sorry to hear that.

What do you mean by "sprite"?

[alphanumeric]

I mean Sprites.

That's what we are. AndrAIa and I.

[hackingyoursensors]

You mean like fairies?

[alphanumeric]

No.

Sprites. Citizens who aren't Binomes or Numbers. [His eyes narrow at this last example:] Or Viruses.

[hackingyoursensors]

[Binomes, numbers, sprites, viruses?]

You're from the inside of a computer program?

[alphanumeric]

A System called Mainframe.

Though we've been traveling the Net for Cycles.

[hackingyoursensors]

[Alright, this is just weird.]

So by sprite, you mean a game sprite. The little characters that show up on screen during a video game, right?

[alphanumeric]

[He looks away; whether or not he intended to, Robin had hit upon a vaguely tender subject.]

AndrAIa is a Game Sprite, but that never mattered to me.

I was compiled in Mainframe's Twin City.

[hackingyoursensors]

[He notices]

I don't see why it would matter.

I have no idea what that is. See, I'm usually the one using the computer. I only ever see the user interface.

[Though the idea of cities inside of computers is cool, in a fairytale kind of way.]

[alphanumeric]

[Eyes. Wide.]

You're a User?

[hackingyoursensors]

[Seeming...confused]

Yep. I use computers, I hack them, I build programs, I build computers.