He smiled now, in the most smugly condescending manner he could manage. After all, that was the best way to hide the bitterness. It always had been. "I guess I can answer that one for free. Yes, it's true. Or at least, all the evidence points that way. The machine summoned us here, and she can dismiss us at will."

He let pause pass by, just for a few seconds, and then he shrugged. "Well, it's only natural. We may not even be Servants here. After all, we can exist without a Master."