[ Her eyes close for a moment. She can feel that well of emotion deep within him. She takes shelter in it for a long moment, hiding in it, almost. Because everything in her own head right now felt so desolate and shaken. ]

I felt a calling this morning. To... Back to the mirror house. I'd never felt that before. it had never even occurred to me. I didn't even realize where I was going until I was just... there.

[ She rubs at her eyes, taking a shuddering breath. ] I saw... home. Memories. Memories I have now that I didn't have before, as if I'd dreamed of living a longer life there. It feels... confusing. And jumbled. But I know so much more that I...

[ She trails off, the words sticking in her throat and she takes a moment to gather the words that cut to the core of the heartache. ]

There are truths I have sought for a long time, before I ever came here. Truths and secrets that haunted me with no answer in sight. I thought... I thought if I could only discover them, that things would make more sense. That I'd be able to understand. That maybe my past wouldn't hurt so much.

Only it seems that discovering them have only tangled things even more deeply. There was no answers in the secrets. Only a greater conundrum.

[ One that she now had no idea what to do with. ]