Well, at first I really thought that it was a golem, but I realized that it actually departed too far from folklore about golems for me to feel comfortable saying, like, Yes, this is a golem. I know that folklore is just stories told by people, and that I have a right to adapt or change those stories as I see fit, because I don't think that golem are real. So I do get to make things up about them, since fundamentally, everything that we know about golems is something that someone has made up. I also thought that it would be interesting and also very much in line with the themes of the book, to play with this idea of, what are you if you are not what people say that you are, or what if people told you that you were one thing, and you're realizing that maybe that word doesn't fully encompass everything that you could be. And so the golem itself has its own little journey of identity alongside the characters, which I thought was really fun, and then with the shaydeem, the word for demons in Ashkenazi Jewish folklore, that was something that I knew very, very little about before I started to write this book. I will say that I did not intentionally depart from traditional folklore. I simply did not know very much about it, and I kind of did that on purpose, because I didn't want to box myself into only what other people said that they were. So what I did was I listened to one podcast called Throwing Sheyd, which was great, and I think I read a few other sources, and then I took what I learned and I just decided to adapt them in ways that made sense for the story, hopefully nothing too outside the realm of the space that I was playing in, but still suiting my story as needed.