There's a hint to it, in the background to SecUnit's voice, if Edward focuses. A badly-tuned radio static that accompanies its words like a discomfiting harmony, rendering an otherwise human-seeming voice something strange and distant. The effect is new, a consequence of this place - but if it makes it easier for everyone here to believe it when it says it's not human, it'll have complicated feelings about that, but it won't complain about that side effect. (It's just weird, to have people not know what a SecUnit is. It's never getting used to the way people here just don't know what one is).

"Safety is more important," it says, awkwardly. "When you need to return to the Convoy I can help." It almost certainly sounds like it's not used to offering like this, and it isn't. Some of that is the result of the vision Edward's projecting - it's trying to ignore that, because if it does it has to talk about the things that were coming through before and that's going to turn into a conversation about emotions that it just does not want to have.

"There's a range of structures and roads," it says instead. "Individual dwellings, signal towers, traveler's stations. They're all in disrepair or abandoned."