[Maes isn't sure when the switch occurred, perhaps it was naturally going to happen. With a comment like that he realizes that this woman might be dealing with more than just never having experienced a festival like this before. But he's heard and participated in talk like this before, when two people have experienced trauma it's hard not to let that flow into the conversation.

Lucky? He wants to laugh, but he swallows it down. Folds it away like the origami at rest beneath his hands.

Unfortunately, thanks to how this place works, I've been given a pretty good idea of when that is going to happen. But, you're right, I plan to cherish it.

[Before they can delve much further down this road he wants to avoid so badly.]

I take it you're alone here then? I imagine that can be hard in it's own way if you've left important people behind.