“Construct. A reconstructed skeleton whose moves can be dictated and controlled…” But Palamedes trails off as he watches the skeleton run after the girl, and the girl attempt to shake it off. Nothing about the thing’s behavior fits the idea of constructs, as he understands them, and neither does the girl’s description of how they came to be. I only touched it and it woke up. Curious.

He decides to try a different tack. “I could show you the way out of here, if you like? Perhaps he won’t follow you topside.”