"Oh, it is... so weird sometimes," Gwen says, pulling a face. "They're great people, most of them, but they're so... okay with everything? They don't find it weird. Or they think I'm weird for not being from here." So far, she hasn't had to deal with that much prejudice; it hasn't stopped them from hiring her, for one. But they do sometimes ask questions about it like she's somehow supposed to be representative of all non-Darrow natives, and it's awkward. "But the science itself isn't any stranger than back home. I mean, I was in high school at home, and I only interned at one lab, so I may not have the best gauge for that, but."