[ So he did know about the surgery... He didn't even stick around long enough to find out who she was, but he obviously had no problems finding her name.

...She decides to keep her answers vague. ]

He has been a professor of pathology for as long as I can remember, though the world we come from is not nearly as technologically advanced as the one 76 describes.

[ Robotics, for example, is just one concept she sort of nodded her head along with, perhaps without fully understanding. She imagined there'd be a lot of that, and she finds it endlessly fascinating. ]