"Of course you're a person. You talk like a person. I've had a lot of conversations with all sorts of things. Wolves, squirrels. Trees. Grass. And there's a difference. I've also," she adds, "talked with constructs that are not people, and there's a difference there, too. Bowen has this skull thing that looks after his library, and it talks, but you can't have a conversation with it."

Maeve. She mouths the sound, committing it to memory. "That's a pretty name," Ylva says.