Unidentified Female Passerby

A brief, non-speaking shipboard passenger whose startled reaction to a naked android punctuates a corridor exchange. She functions as a representational presence rather than a narrative agent: her visible surprise provides Lal with a human model for gendered appearance and feeds into Lal's emergent self-definition. The passerby neither intervenes nor drives plot, but her corporeal, reactive presence helps frame the emotional stakes of creating an artificial identity aboard the vessel.