"I always make sure to keep my aura withdrawn, and I also kept theirs from pressuring you. They were shocked and felt aggrieved by the fact that you could speak normally to them."
"That's not nice of them, they sound like entitled brats."
Hearing this Ziraili was stunned for a moment after which she burst out laughing. For it was truly what the AI were acting as, throwing tantrums when things didn't go the way they expected. Wasn't that the entire reason why GAIA had needed to step in and stop the flow of time for Gaia and in fact the entire simulation.
In fact, even before this many of them had even started wars between their own factions just for entertainment in the past few thousand years. The long span between the previous invasions and this one had made many of them beyond bored.