A narrative loop. He's not familiar with the term but he can grasp the concept. She must be programmed to do something or a set of things over and over and over again. It's-- a little bit sad? But also a little bit funny, if she thinks people are any different.

"I think you'll find most people are caught in loops themselves," Steven points out. "All I do is wake up, eat, work, shower, read, sleep. Take the same bus everyday, eat the same thing every week. And I'd venture to say most people are the same." If she's hoping that some kind of ascension or transition or whatever could break her out, she's going to be disappointed.

"You're real," Steven says, even though Marc's been having an impossible time of it convincing Steven that he's real too. "You think, feel, want things, appreciate nice things, respond to different cues in different ways. If you can hate, love, be selfish, compassionate, petty, magnanimous, stubborn, flexible, if you can pick at all your flaws and loathe yourself and want to be a better person, you have to be human. It don't ma'er what's inside."