"You're not the first one here to express that sentiment. I admit, it's not one I'm accustomed to, but I'm finding myself to be, perhaps inappropriately, pleased by it."

It is, after all, slightly unseemly for a robot to want any sort of freedom. Even now, it's more the way he's treated that he likes rather than his apparent change in status.

"I sometimes come here in search of information, yes."