"Rifties should look out for each other," she replies simply. Being a rifty isn't quite on par with being a foundling (if only because everyone has to know what you are before they can stigmatize you properly), but she feels a similar sense of camaraderie with the rifty population as she did with other foundlings back home.

After a beat, she adds, "And I'm not very impressed by the rebels." Not that she had any firsthand experience with them before today… but what she's learned since meeting Seth isn't encouraging. It's one thing to allow someone's powers to inform what they do for you, which seems to be Romac's approach, and quite another to lock someone in a cell so you can exploit them to your heart's content.