She snorts. "Stupid. Hate it when people are so eager to keep other people captive. Everyone should be free. Hate this stupid ship."

But her attention is diverted a little, and she nods. "It was stuck in one place, though it could send its eye out to go look around the library if you asked it to find a particular book. It couldn't really talk about anything other than the library, though. It wasn't really alive, not in the way you are. But Bowen -- the wizard who made it -- Bowen likes little magical mechanical things like that. It's sort of what he does. He made a tower with legs on it."