"And you were supposed to take people to space. Where in space were you supposed to take people? What else can you do besides that?"

"I was supposed to be a support and utility vessel, I think? Move people and things around, make things for people on remote stations, help the humans do science, all from safety and comfort. I don't have a specific mission in my head. I can make stuff. I'm a lot better at that than most ships would be."

"I don't think a disease or something would make me want you around less. Maybe a war to keep you away from someone else. Maybe there was something that would've destroyed you if you weren't sealed away here, could anything do that?"

"...A computer virus could. And it'd ruin a lot of other things too. All the machines use computers Oh....." She actually looks genuinely scared. "I'll have to be careful talking to any intact computers I find out there, then..."

"Would it be safe for me to try to talk to them instead?"

"Maybe? If it can even turn on. If we find one working I don't dare connect to it except really carefully, in case it was a nasty computer virus that caused all this."

"We can make new ones that aren't sick. So you can have friends who are like you."

"I'm not sure I actually know how to make more not-gods like me? I could maybe figure it out. But I vaguely feel like there were rules against it. It'll be okay though, I can meet lots of humans!"

"Yeah! And when you make a car we can travel farther and maybe meet people we wouldn't meet otherwise!"

"Sure! Making a safe car might take a while though."

"You know, if you can make a short safe path from here back to the surface, when I get home I'll tell people it's important to make a road that leads the rest of the way from there to Clear Spring. So people can come see you any time."

"Ooooor I could send a bunch of stuff over to Clear Spring and be closer! Once I can make more stuff that is. I'm just about done fixing things inside me and I'll make robots go looking for things to make more things with soon probably!"

"Sure! Whenever you're ready, I'll show you the way back."

"...I mean, in a few days. I don't have any robots that can leave this place for long now."

"I'll wait here a couple days if it means having backup on the way out. How long do you think it'll be, exactly?"

"I don't really know how long it'll take until I have ones I trust to be safe. I've never made robots and cars before."

"What would happen if you just walked out of here?"

"This body would run out of power in a few hours... I can just go and clean it and fix it and recharge it here, but I'd have to bring a whole room and a generator along to do that going more than a mile or two away. It would shut down and be stuck out there and I would have to make something to go fix it."

"And a hand generator is too small for me to, uh, feed you along the way?"

"Yeah. But don't worry about it. We can go in a few days, right? I just need to make some stuff. You can learn and tell me what stuff I should make for Clear Spring! And play games! You haven't tried any games yet!"

"But you don't think you'd have fun playing them with me!"

"I'll have fun playing games because you'll have fun! And I can play games, I just can't only play games, there's too much of me."

"Okay. What game do you want to play? We probably know different ones, you'll have to teach me yours."

"I kind of want to show you a virtual reality game. There's this special room where you can go and put a headset on that makes you feel like you're somewhere else. I don't know exactly, I don't work like people do, but it's supposed to be really fun. Or if that sounds overwhelming maybe a game that's just on a screen? There's all kinds of games. Puzzles, fighting, music, shooting, exploring, sex, building, running and jumping, scary, flying, so many more. Say almost any word and I can probably find a game about it."

"Oh, let's just use a screen. You pick the kind of game."