Smuggling Route Dropoff

"The place I come from, that world? Called Earth. Every human has a daemon, there. I thought you weren't human, since you don't have one." Ziyad adds to the conversation, as he drives to the territory of the gang he wants to sell the printer to.
"It's comfortable to sleep in. And it might keep me safe from other daemons if Ziyad got in a fight with someone who had one." But hedgehogs aren't particularly aggressive shapes, and Ziyad isn't a particularly aggressive person. Daemons are linked to people, and symbolically represent things about that person's personality.