( It doesn't seem all that complicated to her, really, but then she has a personal relationship with someone who had to struggle with his identity when he became more man than machine. She always had accepted him, plain and simple. This wasn't a hill she was prepared to die on, just because she's too practical to believe in dying for causes, but she would insist on it being common sense. )

That's all right, Nines. Part of life is being uncertain. We can never have all the answers.

( She offers him this in a soft voice--and she's not really sure what it is about him that makes her soften so. Perhaps because he strikes her as so innocent? )

If you don't mind me asking, were you built to be sentient? Or is this something they didn't think you could achieve?