Aery nods. "Yes... There is one of them in my laboratory and she knows my name and I've never even seen her before... Did you know how good their cybernetics program is? This girl has wings that look like saran-wrap and wire, but they move just like a part of her body..." She laughed despite herself. "Already looking at it like a scientist, aren't I? Oh well. At least they're mostly harmless, so I can let her help me in the lab without worrying about her stabbing me with a neurotoxin or something." She grins at Charlie and heads back to her lab, to see the Lilliputian girl dancing around with a pencil on a sheet of paper, writing down observations about the creatures and plants that Aery keeps. Aery looks closer; the notes are formatted in exactly the same way she always formats them.
Without pausing in her twirling, the lilliputian girl says, "I thought you would like some help. I can be useful around here, you know. I wouldn't be able to look out for Charlie, but since you're so good at that, I can take care of at least this part of the science-y things."
Aery's hand balled up into a fist, her circuit-patterned nails digging into her palm. This girl... So arrogant... And she'd probably had to have been watching for weeks or months, in order to learn so much about Aery.
Very quietly the girl asked, "Where have you been hiding?"
And the lilliputian laughed. "In the air filtration ducts, where else?"