[ That new bit of information shifts Cisco's assumptions slightly; if robots were totally commonplace in Dorian's world, he wouldn't be used to questions, because people wouldn't have questions to ask. Maybe he'd been as much of an anomaly there as he is here. ]

A few weeks?! Damn, you really are a newbie. I've almost been here a year, now. First one of these I've seen, though.

[ And he gestures around them, at the tech expo, and there's a hint of wonder in his voice again. He's smiling a little when he says: ]

It's probably not all that impressive to you, though, right? I mean - where I come from we're not even close to cracking artificial intelligence, or robots that come even close to passing as human.