Riley was starting to feel a little guilty about assuming so instantly that everyone here was a little off their rocker. It had been so frustrating when no one took him or Ben seriously about the Declaration of Independence, and here he was doing the exact same thing to other people in an even worse situation. He was actively trying to open his mind and accept everything he'd seen when Aigis - in the same level, measured tone she'd been using for the entire conversation - started talking about her programming.

Riley peered at her. Yep. That was a really good straight face.

When she didn't so much as crack a smile, the programmer cocked his head. "I get it. This is a joke on the new guy, right?" Monsters and nighttime and sadistic nurses; all of that might be real, but not this. Not... sci-fi stuff. It couldn't be. She even had a rash on her arm, for God's sake! Robots didn't get rashes. Robots didn't look and sound so human. "You're not going to tell me I'm a robot too, are you?"