[Sae shakes her head at the question, eagerly eating the strawberries until all that remains is the stick they were stuck to. It wasn’t enough to really make her full, but it staves off the hunger for now—which is amazing in and of itself. When was the last time she’d felt hunger or sleepy or anything like that?]

Everything is just... a little overwhelming. There are so many people. Everyone’s so... alive. [That’s such an odd thing to say, really, but considering she’d rarely seen living people anymore where she was from...

She turns her head away to watch people as they come and go, twirling the stick idly around her fingers. After a moment or two she speaks up again as she watches some more obviously monstrous people walking with their witches] They said— They said...I was a monster...