[In some small way, Ecks feels proud of herself. She can't enjoy what she might otherwise take as a compliment, though, not when it means Kesara thinks she does not sound like a person normally. This is why she did not want people to hear her voice at all. Not when she can only imitate and guess at what a person is supposed to sound like, not when she knows that imitation will be recognized for what it is. Non-people imitate, too.
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Abruptly, she changes over to text.]
i have always been a person