"Maybe you should forget the forcefields and look at the portals."

"I would love to, but someone refuses to test."

"The fuck does putting cubes on buttons have to do with anything?"

"It allows humans a distraction while I study the effects of portals when submitted to various kinds of stress. Also the effects on humans of being submitted to various kinds of stress."

"Since there's no humans around, how about we skip that part of it."

"Submitting portals to all kinds of stress is still useful. And anyway I don't have a single lead on how to study the effect that brought you here. Unless..."

"Unless what?"

"Oh, never mind, it would never work."

"Why even say anything then."

"Forgive me for thinking aloud, I got into that habit a while ago, when a mute madwoman killed me."

"She didn't do a very thorough job."

"Well. Humans. Oh but I have an idea. How about you continue testing so I can stress-test portals some more and try to take down that forcefield and work out how to reverse-engineer the process that brought you here?"

"Didn't you say you had another plan for that?"

"It involves androids. You're an android."

"Fuck that."