This is the second time he's mentioned having issues with other humans over his vigilantism and abilities. North nods, then gently lifts the gun so that she can ease the hammer back into uncocked position; it's a two-hand job. After that, she tucks the gun away in its holster.

And even as she's doing all that, she logs into several online news sources, searching for instances of "spider" + "masked vigilante." What she finds confirms everything he said.

The search itself takes picoseconds. She pauses for a couple of seconds before speaking, a behavior programmed into her conversational models from the beginning. "I've been focusing on new coverage of the android rebellion, but you're not wrong. They really don't like you."

She pauses again, tilting her head. "I'm North. And you never told me what you were doing here. We can't help with your PR issue -- not only do humans just barely not hate us, we've got bigger problems."