Ah, um... Artificial Intelligence. [That probably didn't really explain anything, huh?] I was created, rather than born. Normally, I shouldn't even have a body in the real world. [And that probably made even less sense... Unless he knew computers and the likes, she better go with a comparison.] I'm like a character in a book, and the author is my creator. Except I was aware of it. I knew I existed only within a book and that there was a real world beyond it.

[ She hoped that analogy worked. ]