[ she looks a little surprised by the turn in conversation; their previous encounter, he'd come off as mister helpful rabbit rescuer, but then there are different sides to everyone. it's a little refreshing, even if mayhaps too sobering for a warm, bright day like this. ]

I absolutely understand.

[ most of the refugees do, she'd wager. grief is a strange enough thing to process when losing only a handful of people, but the loss of an entire world? the absolute magnitude of that knowledge, of how many and how much was lost - and not only her home, but countless others across the vast stretch of spacetime..

maybe her mind is simply too small to fully comprehend the sheer size of it all, to calculate that much sorrow. it's simpler to feel numb. dazed. alisaie sighs, touching a hand to her brow for a moment before she lifts her chin again. ]

Anyroad, it's true, our circumstances could be far, far worse, but still it is all quite.. bizarre. I keep feeling that there's something more I could do, that we could somehow bring it all back. But, alas.