[Her smile softens just a touch; there's certainly a level of self-consciousness regarding the changes she's been through, but she's learning to embrace the bulk of them. There are more ahead, she knows, and they're unlikely to be any easier than the ones that had come before, but she appreciates Alice's words of kindness all the same.]
That's very kind of you to say.
[As for the city:]
It is a little bit like home, in some ways. More monsters and magic than back then— at least, what I knew about when I was a child. [They both know full well now just how much of both are present in their own world.] It's not so different from western Europe. Even some of the food is the same.
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That's very kind of you to say.
[As for the city:]
It is a little bit like home, in some ways. More monsters and magic than back then— at least, what I knew about when I was a child. [They both know full well now just how much of both are present in their own world.] It's not so different from western Europe. Even some of the food is the same.