"I'm well-travelled by the standards of Etheirys and I've never heard of such a thing. Souled machines in general, yes, but none so large as to be able to carry others." They certainly look thoughtful as they lead Malos around the swimming pools towards the structure. Like the rear, there's an open space that was once for mingling underneath; like the rear, it's full of unsettling mirrored furniture. "Then again, there are only a bare handful of ships on this scale in the first place. The Gration is larger, but far less of it is usable."

There are stairs upward along either side - the steps themselves aren't mirrored, thankfully, but the barriers protecting you from falling off to either side are. (To someone from another world, they would look not unlike escalators, though they're just the true, manual effort involved sorts of stairs.) "Has it asked for aught? Made demands?"