"No, I can't imagine it would," Karen says, brow raising along with a corner of her mouth. All of this is more than a little strange, but that in particular — hearing the voice of something with that kind of knowledge all the time — is impossible to try to envision. She's heard about plenty of weird shit, but that's something else entirely, maybe especially for the fact that it was voluntary. "So... again, just to be clear, there are no god mode talking computers this time, right? We're doing things the old fashioned way?"

It's not like it would change her mind if Harold rebuilt the Machine; from what she can gather, it was nothing short of incredible. Still, it's nice to have the details of what she's getting herself into here.