Maeve smiles. "I think I can accept tea atrocities." But yes. The question. She wonders just how much Ruby has explained about...what she is.

"I am not...human. I understand you likely cannot tell the difference. We were made to look a feel as human as possible." She's not dense enough to assume Erin can see her. "We're called Hosts. I believe the commonly known term is..." She can't say robots. Not because of her own hang ups, but because of others'. "Artificial intelligence." There's a pause to let it sink in. "I am now in control of my own...self. As much as I can be. There is a chip..." She makes a face here that is mostly annoyance. "I cannot destroy that would control me for as long as it took for me to destroy the remote controlling it. But it does not exist here. The remote, I mean."