"It has been my experience that time is a vast if not limitless resource," says Glados calmly. "Maybe it doesn't deserve the credit, but it has been useful to me in the past." What's he got against time, anyway? Odd non-human that he is.

And he's asking the questions now. This won't do in the long run but she'll allow it while she's feeling indulgent. "The sort that does important science," she says. "I usually do it as part of a mainframe computer. But now I'm doomed to this body, and my facility is doomed to failure without me. Oh well." She tips her head, smiling thinly. Everything about this is totally fine. "And what about you? Semi-metaphorical suggestion, was it - care to elaborate on that? I'm very interested."

She does not sneeze. This does not surprise her, as an absence of sneezing has never been surprising. It is, however, worth note.