En route

It's Vark-Bark, a combinatory consciousness with a fascination for your patient demeanor, as its processors keep it running at 10x normal speed, and even the shortest amount of time is arduous. You get messages from them like clockwork, so maybe don't reply this time?

Without further investigation, you have no idea who it could be. You doubt it is any artificial intelligence though. Those have been banned for a while now. Shame, really.

[snip] examine suspiciously meat-and-skin-lookin fruit near the picture.

You have absolutely no idea what these are. Any meat or skin you had when you departed has long since been consumed. These formless objects could be almost anything.