"Recovery was incidental in maintaining functionality." He wasn't really sure why he was explaining, aside from the fact that he had no one else to talk to, and Anakin wasn't put off by him the way most of the Rebellion was just on account of what he was and where he was from, despite having been loyal to the cause for nearly a decade.

Of course, maintaining functionality was almost-but-not-quite a euphemism for retaining the information he would need to be able to pose as an Imperial droid again as necessary, but he wasn't going to let on about that, yet.

There was a moment of calculation before he asked: "So you're one of the activists?" He certainly sounded like the people campaigning for droid rights, though Cassian generally tried to keep Kay away from them for their sake less than Kay's.