"And sometimes they hunt it down and kill it, and sometimes they make a cult around it and think it's holy." She has looked into this before for shapeshifters, and it certainly is true for them. "...But you said that most people can't see that you have mechanical parts here?"

"...Of course." Sure, most people never come in contact with anything astral, at least not knowingly, but how can someone not notice the matrix?

She holds up her commlink (a smartphone, essentially). The matrix does a lot more than letting you check the news and so on, but it's a start and on the legal side. "The matrix? What you access with these?"