human
I was afraid you might have lost your head and run away, she said.
gpt
It's good you didn't. There wouldn't have been time to find you again--the change is too close on us both.
human
Change?
gpt
I thought you'd have guessed by now the relation between ourselves and those people in the clippings. You had another seizure in the 'copter, didn't you?
human
You saw four faces this time, she went on,
gpt
It was Ellis, the chemist, Alcorn said. And with a numb premonition of the truth, he quietly asked,
human
How did you know that?
gpt
You were broadcasting it like a beacon. We're both in the last stages of the change. Now that our conditioning is lifting, we're reverting to our original telepathic nature. That's how _they_ found you and me, as they found Ellis and the others--by tracking down our communication auras.
human
Those four--why were they mobbed and killed?
gpt
Because the change caught them too suddenly for escape, she said.
human
And because, in our natural state, we are incompatible with Man.
gpt
With Man, he repeated.
human
And what does that make us? Supermen or monsters?
gpt
You're still blinded by your conditioning, she answered,