The biggest difference between here and there was that the "locals" were what we called drones. They always followed a very strict script and wouldn't even react if you locked them in a closet.

[Not that was a common drone management strategy or anything...]

It turned out that that was because they couldn't generate full complex personalities from scratch. They needed to use real people to populate the world. We were... toys, for a long time.

[She remains unimpressed]