Remember a few minutes ago when I asked you to simplify?

[Markus, she's a cat. Androids aren't a thing. You are making words up— but with enough context that, tilting her head at a different angle, she can almost see the meaning of.]

So, something that's... like human, but not treated like human. And whoever made them put the possibility into them for it to work out that way? [A moment, the spark of alarmed inspiration.] So— so, they were vacuous? But then they stopped. Is that right?