"A story?" The request causes Simone to raise her eyes from her work for a moment. "Not sure I know anything that would interest a mage. OK, here goes. I was fifteen when I came across the Atlantic from France. I had grown up in an orphanage and was reaching my use-by date, if you know what I mean. The place could only keep people until they were sixteen, so they were shopping around for a place to put me and a family in Denver had put up that they were looking for someone to take care of their kids. So I was basically sold to this family and shipped to them. They were monsters, well, figuratively, anyway. Truly horrible people to work for. It was not long before I left them, but I had no papers so was pretty much in the drek, so to speak. Wandered about and went back to learning how to fix cyberware, which had always fascinated me. Bounced around and eventually made it here."