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[Amaterasu]

"Updating entry... Dikudu... Xtrild. Nice to meet you... I think." Again, a mixture of robotic and human speech came from her. She struggled to stay seated without falling to the sides, but with every passing second she mastered her body better. It was like watching a kid learn how to stand, except it was happening in a span of minutes instead of weeks. Even so, she supported herself on the ground. Balancing was a difficult thing yet which she was not accustomed to.

"I don't know this land you named, Alternia. I do know what trolls are, although my database entries list them as quite different than what you are. Bigger, hairier and uglier, mostly." Now that she knew his race she began to look Dikudu over with newfound interest, having mistaken him for a human with odd protursions on his head at first. She did so with a complete lack of subtlety and in a scanning manner, from his feet to his head and back down, before looking back into his eyes. "Alternia is now being added to database... entry established." Though she also made another entry for Alternian trolls she kept that to herself. For some reason she felt like it'd make flesh-beings uncomfortable if she recited her actions as she used to do before... before that had happened.

"A rhethorical question, you say? Right... I think it was partially my fault as well then for not picking up on it. Humans have... odd ways." She backed herself up to a rock and pushed with her hands, getting to a seated position. Her legs were still wobbly but she was beginning to understand how they were meant to be used. "I am not human myself, though I seem to have the body of one in this universe. I am a virtually existing intelligence... sarcasm and irony are oddly anti-logical statements, to this point in time I have not found myself able to reliably distinguish them." She raised a hand and waved it off, a movement she had learned from observing humans. Thanks to the detailed footage and her relatively good mastery of her arm muscles, this movement came over much more real than her other ones. "There is no reason to apologize. Like said, I am to blame as well for not grasping the joke." She made a mental note to review Dikudu's speech pattern at a later point in time. Perhaps she could make out how this sarcasm worked now that she had a human mind.

"I'm sorry, I was not very clear the first time. I mistook you for a human due to your physiology, that is why I applied human-customs protocols. Unfortunately I have no entries on Alternian troll customs, though I'd be happy to learn. I apologize in advance if I'm accidentally causing any offense, that's not my intent." She tilted her head to the side then lifted her hand to rub the underside of her chin, which was another human thing she had picked up from the researchers she had been used by. She hoped that movements like these would make Dikudu feel more comfortable. She had noticed several times that humans rapidly grew discomfortable around humanlike robots which were robotic in terms of movement but had humanlike features and speech patterns. Little movements like this would hide her artificial-ness, at least hopefully. "That is peculiar... I am certain that I have not dreamt the events prior to my arrival. Human dreams are vague and unclear, I have however a very clear recollection of the black space and of the individual named Omni. I was introduced to the existence of Omnilium and this place that we inhabit, both of which are concepts I cannot recall having seen before. I must conclude that the information was either brought in from an external source or that they are recordings I have made myself."

She shook her head to his next offer. "I appreciate it, but I believe that I am gradually grasping the use of this body's muscles. If I wish to move on my own I cannot rely on external assistance." Finally she risked it, and pushed herself up from her seat. Although very wonky and almost falling against Dikudu she was able to keep herself standing, though she supported herself on the rock she had previously sat on as she tried to keep her balance. "I think I can handle it... it's difficult but it'll work out." She returned to looking at Dikudu from there though she constantly had to shift her eyes back over to the rock when she fell - which again happened more and more spaced out as she found the balance point of her body. "If you have an issue with remembering events prior to this location, I may be of assistance. My primary issue is that I presently have no tech at my disposal, but with the right tools I would be able to use a Neural Scanner to reproduce your memories provided that they are not lost entirely. The technology was previously used on corpses from recently deceased soldiers of the Vanu Sovereignity to transfer their knowledge from the battlefield to new bodies. It should be even more efficient with a living body like yours."

She looked around as if a computer station with a Neural Scanning Pod was anywhere nearby, though of course that would have been much too convenient. Instead everything was white and empty save for a few people and large shapes off in the distance. She was starting to wonder if this wasn't a half-finished simulation for her. A white place with only a few objects in it didn't exist in the regular world, she had never seen one. But in a simulation where every detail was built from scratch until a location was finished it looked just like this: empty and white, or black. Speaking of which... the individual Omni had been in a black space as well. She wondered if this really was a simulation, though it made no sense as to why she would be put into one.