It was the only existence I knew, before Ryslig. I had another life, before that one, but I don't remember it. My people were wiped out by an empirical military, that culture and those ways more or less lost to me.

[She shrugs. It's all in the past, and while she's lost most ties to Ishbal...she's found alternatives.]

I'm not about to repeat it. But I do understand. Most of us here...we harbor very dark depths, Mr. Boone. You may come to find, as time passes, there are more here who share commonalities with you than you would have guessed. I know I have.