You are vaguely reminded of something. It's hard to remember. It was so many years ago.
Author commentary: Try not to forget that these carapacians can live a really long time. They don't technically age, or suffer degenerative consequences of age. So when PM thinks back to years ago, we're talking maybe a couple hundred years ago, when she wandered the desert wasteland? She could live plenty longer than that, too. Carapacians are supposed to live a long time, since each chess person has the potential to become an exile and thus wander around forever until they figure out how to rebuild civilization like Jack did as Slick. In this sense, they're a bit like anti-consorts, whose lifespans are tragically short. The game has no use whatsoever for any individual consort. They are a supremely nonindividualist society.