A person might be forgiven for seeing the magpie-shaped daemon first and her human Borrower second...if at all. It's unusual, after all, to spot a bird inside an otherwise abandoned dining hall. "Synechdoche," the bird is saying to the gap under a cabinet. "I don't understand it, either, but that's my name and I'm very sure I belong to you. It's the strangest thing -- I know I haven't been here with you, but I know I have. You know?"

"I don't know," comes a small voice from under the cabinet. He sounds doubtful, but he's at least not trying to retreat any further.