[Jade's Lair]

"I will be glad to enlighten you." Green says to Tristan. "Operational memory is short-term. It is the section of memory which contains information to be processed immediately, as well as the temporary registers needed to process it. Archival memory is long-term. It is the section in the sense most humans mean it; references to past events and the like. After being properly processed, operational memory is usually converted to archival memory, but in this state, that does not happen. My operational memory simply runs out and I forget." She blinks. "Does that answer your question? You did ask a question, correct?"