"I... have no idea what any of this means," Maeve admits with a soft breath that might be laughter and might be something else. She's trying to follow what Gideon is telling her, but so far all she's got is that Harrow made literal puppets of her parents and then she and Gideon had to go somewhere to compete for something.

To serve some king. It all sounds like more pressure than anyone deserves to live with.