That the connections inside a pod serve as both communications pathways and security wiring? (The Burning Life, p 30)
(Also, Madam Tisserand looks like her last name should mebbe be Castorida. Dang, Vieve /o\)
Mostly that, although I was also going for a pun that mildly indicated that between the faec and the hair, she was playing to the mousy lesbian stereotype >.>