I think your hypothetical needs some work.

[ Pyrrha has yet to meet Penny, after all, so she’s not yet adjusted to the worldbuilding-important detail that robots can have an aura of their own. Still, despite her own very utter certainly that this would never happen, Pyrrha gives up on her search for a moment to answer his question as legitimately as possible. ]

Well, in this situation, is that Nora our friend or our enemy? Why wouldn’t she tell us about who she really is?

[ “A robot from the future” can imply a number of different allegiances. ]