"Do you want to know about bones? I've learned about those whether I wanted to or not," Gideon offers. Except for the whole animals on this planet's islands thing, this would have been Gideon's first experience with furred anything. Much less ones that turn into hot women. She scratches the side of her head. "You weren't wielding a sword."

This new person, Saxsice, is definitely not from the Nine Houses. Outside of that, she doesn't know. In defense of the other Houses, they probably have animals. "Imagine a tiny nunnery or monk house, monastery?, except smush them together, full of a bunch of old religious people. Now stuff that down a hole in a small space rock. Oh, and the skeletons outnumber the people. They help grow the horrible tasting food. Though it is blessedly not so fucking bright," Gideon describes it. She taps her sunglasses that weren't necessary on the Ninth House.