[Truthfully, there's no way to be entirely sure that this person is one of the new arrivals. He thinks he saw her in that crowded room with Miss Nessie, but he can't be sure; there were a lot of people in that room. He thinks she's a little too human-looking to be properly monster, but he could be wrong about that, too. Her clothes are off, but she could be eccentric.]

[It was a gamble talking to her. But he's not surprised to be right. He never is.]

[He takes the time to give due consideration to the question. It's an important one, or he wouldn't have asked it in the first place.]

I think . . . this one is more honest. That's how I feel. [He gestures towards the handmade pole.] And more personal. I haven't found it friendlier, but that doesn't matter. [To him, anyway. Even if it should.]