"I live outside a town called Hawthorne's Fall. I live there because I guess I sort of work for the people who run it. It's sort of a place for people who aren't wanted anywhere else."

Ylva looks at Maeve hard for a moment, and her nose twitches in a curious way. "'Made'? Are you a sort of construct, too? Or," she catches herself, "Max said 'omnic,' and got sort of upset when I called him that."