Editing Denizen (section)

==Formation==
They can be born as they are, spontaneously manifest, or be [[innocents]] who wander into an undercity and find themselves "home".<ref name=:0>Miss explained, “Knotted persons have already started filtering in.  Tashlit could tell you more, so perhaps reach out to her to speak with her in dreams, I know her brother has experience. [...] There are people drawn to knotted spaces, and there are people who will spontaneously appear in those spaces.  The line between the two things is indistinct.  They usually keep the company of other knotted persons, but not completely.  Some will cross that indistinct line.”<br><br>“What in the heck does that mean?” Lucy asked.<br><br>Miss went on, “They’ll show up.  Broad daylight.  They don’t always flinch at or care about Others and they aren’t innocent.  We don’t know the particulars yet, but you’ll want to watch out for them.  Perhaps guide them back where they came from.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/10/09 Excerpt] from [[Fall Out 14.2]]</ref><ref name=:1>“Bit of a weird out-of-nowhere question, I know, but are you like… newborn?” Verona asked.[...] “Do you have an existence before Kennet?”<br><br>“Ohhh.  Me?  I guess.  I’ve been places, you know?  Surviving.  I was too young to remember, then I was here.  But there are definitely ''new'' people.  Mostly they go with the flow.  And then there’s people who… you ''know'' they’re from outside.  They’re pulled here, maybe they filter through society at a downward angle instead of filtering straight.  That doesn’t make sense.  It’s dumb.”<br><br>“Nah.  Not that dumb.  So there’s people… kinda appeared.  Haven’t really carved out a niche?”<br><br>“Or found a gig, niche, style.  I dunno.  How do people show up in other places?  Where you’re from?”<br><br>“Pregnancy and they get born there, or they move in.”<br><br>“Can you verify that for everyone?” Mal asked.  “Did you see everyone getting born?”<br><br>“No.  But-”<br><br>“But wait, let me finish.  You didn’t see them getting born, but you ''assume'' they were born, right?  Most of them?”<br><br>“Pretty much all.  Others excepted.”<br><br>“Sure.  I can assume or pretend most people here were born too.  Easy.  I assume I was born too, but I definitely don’t remember that.  Do you?  Remember being born? [...] So… does it really complicate things compared to here?  Pretending or assuming I was born, pretend-assuming the same for others”<br><br>Verona debated arguing but she decided she’d rather get more important info first.  “Okay, but then there’s ones like you… maybe you half-existed somewhere, filtered out, filtered back in? [...] And then, third group, there’s people who- I guess they might be the outsiders in reality, and they become ''non''-outsiders here?  We call them innocents, but that might be generous.”<br><br>“Sure.  Like there’s guys who just sorta wandered in, saw people fighting in the street, or there was a shady bar and people doing mystery drugs in the alley and they were like, ‘I’m home!’.  Or they didn’t care.”<br><br>“Or life kicked their asses enough they can’t tell the difference between this and reality.”<br><br>“Fuck you,” Mal retorted, unexpectedly hostile.  “This is real.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/10/12 Excerpt] from [[Fall Out 14.3]]</ref>