That, and Matthias would still be hard pressed to describe what he thinks Banshee is. He knows he's talking to something, and it has a living spirit, enough for a name and for questions to sound like a normal conversation, and for the moment that has to be enough.

'I see,' he says. Home, and what is useful. It's not an ideal life, to be so stripped. 'You build as well as use them, or only use them?'