[ She is, indeed, about to drop the subject, at least for the time being. He's so clearly worked up about it, but he seems more worried about talking about it than whatever the issue actually is. There is the possibility that his body is infused with living cells; she knows that there had been experimentation with that in the earlier days of robotics, and if he already has a human brain in there, even in data form, it's not impossible. Whatever the answer is, he doesn't seem afraid that it's about to kill him. That's what actually matters here.

So she lets him direct the topic back to Pod. 2B looks up at the little floating robot, then back to Simon, nodding after a second. Her expression is a bit difficult. ]

I did, but it's missing all of its data on Hathaway. [ in other words, it doesn't remember any of it. ] It's like it was never there.

[ ... as if it had been with A2 the whole time, just like she'd planned. She realizes as she speaks she hadn't actually asked him about A2. It's impossible that Simon hasn't seen her, isn't it? This place isn't half as big as the guild had been. But she has an uncomfortable feeling that Simon probably wouldn't react well to her. Maybe he hasn't mentioned her on purpose. ]

... Anyway, I'm only borrowing it.