Peter started when she appeared. A woman. There was a woman in his computer. HUH?! He stared for a moment, studying her, trying to figure out first if she was a technopath like him, second how she had gotten into the system, and third... okay, wait. He decided to get one and two out of the way before going on.
Her question threw off his initiative, and he looked around for a moment. "Um. Information superhighway? A stop on it. In a metaphorical kind of sense. I mean-- you're in my computer. Not even in the network, you're in my hard drive." He pointed at the busy road. "That's the network. How did you do that?"
She was digital. That's what his senses were telling him. Digital. The same way he would probably register to her, though he still retained a biological signature. She was just digital. "What are you?"