Verge shook his head.
“That is a rather unreasonable question.”
He sat still. He didn’t know how to answer the questions, either of them. He had asked Life what had been meant by ‘before’, and had gotten no answer. And now he was asked to tell ‘the totality of his knowledge’, which he thought was rather ridiculous. He had already shown Life all his direct experiences since waking up, but because of his internal index of information he had quite a few facts at his disposal.
“That is a rather unreasonable question.”
He sat still. He didn’t know how to answer the questions, either of them. He had asked Life what had been meant by ‘before’, and had gotten no answer. And now he was asked to tell ‘the totality of his knowledge’, which he thought was rather ridiculous. He had already shown Life all his direct experiences since waking up, but because of his internal index of information he had quite a few facts at his disposal.