"Where I come from, nobody has kids anymore," says Gideon, picking at the edge of her bottle's label with her thumb nail. "Harrow was the last baby born to the Ninth. The two of us, and Ortus, who's older -- we were the only kids. I guess other houses have children, but not us." She sort of shakes herself, pulls herself back to the conversation that they're having. "I come from an Empire at War, Maeve. If people didn't have kids because they thought they might leave them, nothing would ever get done."