He recognized Ama's ability as using an illusion of her voice, and possibly her face, even depowered as he was he could still notice things like that. He did smile at some of her questions, knowing she lacked his understanding of Barid, but kept an ear on it. It was still valuable to learn these things, especially since Barid knew him almost as well as he knew Barid. The two could trick each other with some ease, but Ama was not so easily tricked. She might catch things that would slip right by him without him ever catching on.<br/><br/>"I am. Still interested, I mean. I spent two millennia running around, often times with only the constructs to talk to. A few times only myself when I got separated from them, and once floated in a derelict beyonder tainted hull for two months, waiting for a relief ship to arrived after it had blown my transport out of the air and drove off my main ship."