"I will, later." Charge charge charge...

Its eyes glow marginally brighter, but it doesn't seem to otherwise react.

"Vasil, you are the most beautifully complex thing I have ever laid eyes on," she mentions, awed.

"This unit is satisfied its operator is pleased with its operation."

"Yeah, you're pretty impressive. More computer-magic than wild magic. Even if I don't have much sense of scale for this world's magic."

It inclines its head.

"Trust me, this is extremely advanced." Flip flip flip.

"Vasil, what kind of instructions have you had in the past?"

"This unit has never been activated before."

"Hm, happy birthday?"

"This unit was not born."

"Birthday generalized to an acknowledgement of coming to be no matter the method? Except that's not right either. You've been inactive."

It doesn't react.

"Hm." She starts looking over Kaede's shoulder, reading.

The book's gone extremely technical, with specialised jargon that probably has to do with qualia not experienced by nonmages.

"...I'm not sure what happens now."

"I'm just going to—hold on, I found some things—give me five minutes—"

Warily watching the golem for five minutes it is, then.

The golem acts exactly like a statue would, i.e. not at all.

"Okay so I think I can tentatively say it may in fact be sapient."

"Good for you, Vasil... It probably says something that this isn't even the weirdest thing I've seen so far this year."

"It isn't?"

"No, that has to go to the squirrels who bundled up in some clothes and pretended to be a human. Though I probably see a weirdly high number of weird things, they send me to them to investigate since I can sense magic."

"Squirrels did what?"

"A bunch of squirrels who stole clothes from a few farmers, all walked inside them, and tried to pretend to be a very lumpy and clumsy human. They tried to buy nuts and berries with oak bark. When the Witches came along, they all ran away."