"Others have done the same when they arrive." Some staying for days in the woods. If she were a different woman, raised away from luxury and excess, perhaps she would have felt safer there as well. But she was only herself and the city was what she was used to. The smell of shit, the press of people. It had been natural once. Now...it was hard to say where she felt at home.

Or if there was a home for her anywhere anymore.

She feels his eyes again. His were perhaps the most intense she had ever seen, not simply in color or vibrancy, but his use of them and how it felt like he piercing through her when he stared. It was almost like he could see her naked and vulnerable.

"Two years." She answered, shrugging her shoulders slightly. "There were others from my world as well during that time. Now it's only me. I think the Observers mean to keep me for some time."