"Around... the number?" she knew how to go around something in the road or around the sofa. How does someone go around a number? And why did everyone keep talking about size like she was too big or too small or would become bigger. She was what she was created to be. And she knew that was less than human, and she'd never be as good as an actual human, but she was a person now, right? So she was allowed to be what she was, wasn't she?

She might have missed the insult as her mind had gone elsewhere...