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GENESIS: The aftermath
In the aftermath or follow-through, you have problems, shall we say, with the acclimation of the newly-created being to his new body and environment.
Now, we've seen some of this in the Drummond & Dolly stories where Drummond will explain some cultural point to Dolly, like the one about blowing your skirt up and the thing about Marilyn Monroe in "The Seven-Year Itch".
But there's more to it even than that, I just haven't written about it. After all, you can't expect a 3-month-old, no matter how smart she is, to have all of the skills of a trained assassin/spy/bodyguard/policewoman. Let alone being sufficiently acclimated or acculturated to be able to get around in our modern world. I figure that it would take a few years.
So Dolly has to go away for a time. Since the Progressive Gods are hunting her, or would if they knew she was still alive, she hides. The best place to hide her is backtime--ten years in the past. Gods can travel backward in time, any amount, instantaneously. (They can only travel forward at the rate of 60 seconds per minute, and frequently "skim" years at a time without actually living through them by taking a Nap.) Then she is hidden in plain sight on the campus of East College as an ordinary coed undergraduate--later, grad student and post-doc.
That's how she was able to play the guitar, for example, and lead a band when she was less than a month old. And yet, because of the intensive nature of the training she underwent in that time, she's got a bit of the idiot savant about her ... she's really well-educated in book learning at the expense of practical horse-sense in some cases, although she seems to have a native street smarts that keeps her out of the worst of trouble. Most of the time.
Xe Doll went through a similar training period and it was aborted, as did the other dollies. They've all got a handicap that demonstrates their persistence and intelligence ... it takes a lot of both to pick up the complexities and nuances of modern life from context.