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1136 hours, Saturday, January 27, 1973.
Hello. This is medical unit 0031. I do not think this program was meant to be used as a record of past events, but Herr Engineer suggested it to keep myself busy while waiting for him to finish repairing me. He calls it "keeping a journal." I am a bit puzzled by this practice as I can recall things without having to keep a typed record of them. Most likely it is simply a human ritual. Many things that humans do make little sense to me, and Herr Engineer was human once. What is one supposed to put in a journal anyways? Which details should I insert and which should I leave out? How do humans make decisions like this? It is mystifying.
If someone were to read this at some point, perhaps they would require some context, so here is the context. I am a robot, but I am at a base with Herr Engineer's human friends because I helped him to escape. Drei is also here, sleeping in my lap at the moment. She is what is commonly called a pigeon though I can provide the genus and species names if necessary. She broke her neck against the building and died, but I fixed her. She still cannot fly yet. Eventually I will fix that too.
I am incapacitated at the current time and have been for longer than a week now, though I was powered down for most of that. My vital systems have only just been fixed so I can stay on for longer than a few minutes without shaking too badly. Herr Engineer has not had time to repair my pneumatics or even to patch my tire, so my motility is limited. Still I am able to move my arms and he has me propped up, so it is not as bad as it could be.
He is wanting to replace a good many of my parts. It may be weeks before he is entirely done if he carries on with these plans, to improve my functionality beyond mere repairs. I will let him do what he likes because I think it helps him to not think about his current mechanical state. It also gives him a reason to stay in his room. It confuses me because he likes being with his friends very much, but he actively looks for reasons to stay away from them. Maybe he thinks they secretly do not want to be around him because he is a robot now, and he thinks they just do not want to tell him. I do not know; human brains are very complex things.
But even so, Herr Engineer seems happy to have escaped from Herr Gray. Being among the humans again has greatly improved his disposition. I wish I could be more pleased for him. As the matter stands I cannot overlook that I betrayed Herr Gray. He must hate me.
I want to stop recording now.
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