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[my_six_hearts]

[the Weighted Companion Cube--parked outside its door--had just had an interesting and worrying experience, so its mind was buzzing. All sorts of little thought-blips were appearing on the page, typing silently along in an erratic way]

I have been here for a long time. long time how would I judge a long time I think it is something I heard

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[encryptedlock]

[dictated back of course]

You are changing. It is a common effect of Paradisa to change its residents.

[my_six_hearts]

[the Weighted Companion Cube liked familiar things. That voice was familiar]

Residents are people who live somewhere. [if it remembered correctly]

Am I a resident? I do not live.

[encryptedlock]

Technically, neither do I. To exist with an awareness of one's self in a place is to reside in that place - by that definition, both you and I are residents.

[my_six_hearts]

[and that was a trick question, one that struck the Companion Cube speech thoughtless for a few minutes, as the journal struggled to pick up something substantial]

I exist. [another long pause] I am here.

I must know this. I know I am learning. I know Wybie is different.

I exist. I am here. I know.

So...I am a resident?

[lady_girasol]

[written!]

Yeah, inanimate object or no, learning's always a good thing, right?

[my_six_hearts]

[the Cube parroted back the new things it learned on this subject]

To learn is complex.
Learning can be difficult.
Learning is the best way to understand humans and their society.

[lady_girasol]

Yup!

That goes for other species, too. There are more than just humans out there figure out...

[my_six_hearts]

[if the Cube could have been smiling, then its expression would have fallen a little. It really didn't understand what humans actually were, so any pride it had felt at understanding something faded as the girl talked over its head--so to speak]

I... [a pause as it couldn't complete the thought]

Learning is the best way to understand humans and their society.

[why_born]

It's okay, Cubie. I'm back to normal now. It was a loss, is all.

[my_six_hearts]

[the Weighted Companion Cube is happy, and does not know what a loss is]

Wybie.

It is Wybie.

Wybie is speaking to me again.

[why_born]

Yeah, I am. Sorry about the...um silent thing.

I'm better now, I promise.