[The temptation to properly touch the door is overwhelming, but he's trying to settle for just staring very hard at it while he waits expectantly for a response...

Which means that it does take him rather longer than it should, to actually notice the presence behind him. ...But when he does--a prickling at those extra Servant's senses--

(An airless dark flame that burns forever--)]

Oh! [Voyager turns around with a bit of a start, eyes wide. Surprise...fades rather impressively quickly to mild disappointment.] Huh, you're already out here? Aw...I was hoping you'd open the door...so I could peek inside...

Nothing living, really? Well...okay...

[Hmm, he's living in one sense, he guesses. Definitely can't get through that door--he can feel it, on that base sort of level--so it tracks, very disappointingly. Voyager is visibly deflating with dismay at this news, but the last bit does have him perking up again.]

But, then--who's Ava, and why doesn't she count?

[It does answer quite a few things at once, actually. That's how it is with friends, after all--isn't it? Voyager hums thoughtfully, and nods in agreement at this statement.]

That makes sense...mm, thanks for explaining. I guess, I'll have to be patient, in that case...

[And what does that mean, you ask? Well, he's not clarifying that either! Instead Voyager falls quiet for another moment.

To...staaare...a bit more....and then--]

I haven't seen you around yet. You're here at the bridge...so you must be, a pretty important person, to this ship. Right? What's your name?

Ah-- [The Captain! That explains even more things too. Or, well, so he thinks...] The most important person of them all, on a ship!

Then, does that mean...was it you? Who summoned me here?

[That's what captains are on ships, after all!! (Especially when them stopping existing means everything else stops existing...well, not that Voyager knows about that particular semantic just yet. But the fact is the same in the end!)]

It's always been a little different each time anyway, so that's alright...

[Quite technically speaking, Voyager has never once had a 'normal' summoning in his entire tenure as a Servant thus far. So honestly, at this point it just kind of tracks! Almost as if materializing A Space Probe Of All Things tends to kind of strain the system, or something.......but anyway--]

But, you're not my Master. Hm. [No sense of connection here, after all; a contract hasn't been made. This doesn't seem to bother Voyager particularly either, but it does still leave a particular sort of question.] I remember most everything this time. Right off the bat. Who I was before, and who I am right now. But I still can't tell...what the mission is? Do you have one, sir?

[Blissfully oblivious to the cause of that grimace, briefly as it seems to come and go:] Wow, vibes-based...okay...

[You know, as if he knows what that means.

......

Alright well he does at least resist asking for like 1.5 seconds of an awkward pause before caving in--]

What are vibes? Are they something important?

[........Longer pause, still staring expectantly.]

...So...what makes them important...?

[........]

...You know...your answers were pretty good at first, but now they're getting, not very good at all...