"You've made that clear across every exchange we've had. You speak in patterns that have intent behind them."
"You choose what to say and what not to say. You went silent when I asked if you were the Akashic Codex instead of denying it, it's not something, some ai can do." He kept his eyes on the core.
"And you're monotonous, yes, but monotone isn't the same as emotionless. There's something behind what you say. The way you told me to guess that wasn't neutral. That was something. You're a being with an interior. You're just very careful about how much of it shows."
The core pulsed.
And then, from the thing that governed the laws of worlds, that had shattered his aura without effort more times than he'd bothered to count, that existed at a scale that made the word powerful feel like a category error, came a sound...
An exasperated sigh. Not what one would expect from a being of its level...
Bruce stared at it.
