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The first thing they could recall with help of their brain was confusing, to put it lightly.
They could recall a certain nothing, like there wasn't anything there. At first, anyway.
Then, an explosion of... everything happened.
They saw colours first. Now, they would call them more 'muted', but at the time, it was the brightest thing they ever saw.
Then, they could hear something. At that time, they would be completely unaware that it was even a sound, or that sounds were even a thing.
In the past, they turned their head, in an attempt to pinpoint what this new... thing was, and what did it even looked like.
They noticed some other things that they immediately recognised as them. How did they know that? Past them didn't linger on that.
Present them was aware of the fact that the other things were them, mass produced to serve a precise function. What that fucntion is, they doubt they'll ever learn it, or that any of the other would know.
Looking away, they managed to identify just where the noise they heard was coming from.
It was from beyond the glass panel that served as a safety measure for the strange shape that was chatting among themselves.
Weird, past them thought. Past them promptly elected to ignore them.
Now that present them looking back on their old memories, this was a shit move, proven by those figures then selecting only themself out, specifically.
Then, they didn't thought much of it. Hell, they considered it to be an honour to be 'choosen' by these... people who could be simliar to gods, and who can act like one for all they know.
They now know better than to trust these figures. But they can't go back and say "hey, maybe don't listen to them". Like that would do anything in the grand scheme of things.
The currently mysterious figures, now having isolated themself, proceeds to talk in an hushed tone. They could only pick up the odd words.
Pretty good, since at this point, they didn't know what words, or even languages, are.
The words they could pick up, (due to what they now know was enhanced hearing on most of their other designs) would link with being unsatisfactory for this 'boss' and that they would need to do something to them.
The details were lost, but the implications were the same, that they failed to do something to someone these people respect, and may think as to god (later them would remove this idea off the table completly)