Well, it's kiiinda the beginning... I like to do my scene setting in the start, then I get into the meat of the story, although I tend to get distracted and have to describe everything in exhaustive detail, which I'm trying to get out of the habit of doing... ;)

Like I mentioned, this is a parallel universe, where Synth is a lot commoner - in my "normal" universe, Ivy is the only one (that is, in the "known universe") for a very long time, and the reason most have fairly "organic" flavours to their actions is because they were largely based on her own neural structure. :)

Argh c'mon name, come to me... *thinkthink*