[The chains surrounding Thanatos rattles as he moves his hands, coffins shiftying away from A2’s direction. If she’s communicating, then there must be some hope to an agreement, yes?]

I’m not a machine! I’m what you call a Shadow. I’m not sure if you’re a Shadow too, but we’re not enemies.

[He does wonder about those machines that she has been talking about — does she mean the simulation that they are trapped in, or something else? He doesn’t know the cause of the madness this time, but any clue to stopping the transformations would be helpful at this point.]

Who are these machines you speak of?