[An expression crosses Murderbot's face, because it still hasn't gotten good at hiding those; the look is one of sort of suspicious resignation, as Murderbot wonders if this woman is going to be like Mensah and Ratthi, who fuss about terms like function and Murderbot and not a person.

Every day it suffers by being around people who try to treat it like a person.]

The humans I know like to think that, too.

[To be fair to Murderbot and its humans, they're literally just some guys. And even the most well-trained combatant isn't much compared to a construct.

Circling back to the first question:]

I'm a SecUnit. I was made to provide security and protection for humans. [There's a pause and a frown, because Murderbot has realized that most people here aren't at all familiar with constructs.] I'm not a robot.

[It pronounces robot slightly weirdly, almost as if there are quotation marks around the "ro-" part. It's used to just calling them bots.]