He has a physical form, but he seems to be able to switch between the two. And I suspect he likes the incorporeal one better, given the amount of time he spends inside my Gear. [Pause.] And the fact that it's easier for him to make himself understood that way. Outside of cyberspace, his range of speech is mostly limited to a handful of tonal sounds, and it tends to be much easier for his audience to read words on a screen than to translate his Morse Code from dots and dashes into sentences in real time.

[But she considers that second question a minute before answering, her tone highly amused.]

Ask me that again the morning after I find the lab that first created one.