"It's not just here." She shook her head, because that was sort-of meant as a reassurance, "I don't think I'm going to be 100% comfortable anywhere for a while." She dusted the dirt from her fingers and folded her arms, loose and comfortable instead of prickly and standoffish as she had been before the rescue, "More comfortable here than I would be most places, though. At least here I know I've got backup. It's just..."

She stopped herself, as if thinking better of what she'd been about to say, hesitating for a moment and then just continuing ahead anyway, "I think you all forgot that you've had ages to get used to all this, lifetimes, you all had time to get used to it before you even met each other, and I didn't have time to get used to fuck-all before I got swept off into all this craziness by a bunch of people I had one real confusing dream about, one time, while I was recovering from what I thought was a near-death experience!"

Her voice had continued to rise as the words had kept unwinding out of her like a spool of twine, one after the next and she took a shaky breath, making herself relax back a little as she shook her head and finally focused on him once more, "Everything I thought I knew has been upended, and I haven't even had time to breathe."