[This setting had to be preferable in many ways to what she was used to. No one here knew her, nor did they know about the monster lurking within. Even if they did it likely wouldn't garner the same responses... at least not from the sundered themselves. Locals were another story.

Ah- from that description it wouldn't be hard to determine which house she'd been placed into.]

No, it doesn't. [Instinctively reaching for the puzzle around his neck. The fact that it had arrived here had been troubling to him] As for me, I was in the afterlife for a while before I was drawn here. [In fact he'd even slipped in an additional trip to Domino before now]

Nothing definitive. [Bits and pieces of the puzzle were being discovered but nothing that could stop it or reverse the process] .......................... [He grew oddly silent and contemplative for a moment. Sure, there was every reason she might wish to return- but..... she wasn't factoring in the possibilities afforded here either] .... Would it be so bad to remain here for a little while...?