Yeah, that’s- [ Simon breaks off with a huff and braces himself for Total Konoha Collapse when he thinks he feels her buckle behind him, but she manages to right herself. Hope she’s enjoying those cold metal components for the few minutes before she fogs them up with fever. ] -that’s her.

We were both working for the same... uh, something kind of like this. There aren’t any jinba in my world, [ well. weren’t ] so she was the first I’d ever met.

[ He gets distracted then because thank god, they’re almost there. Well, sort of almost, they’re going at a snail’s pace, but getting Konoha up was the important thing, and she’s up... and Simon has no idea how long she has to be up, but maybe it’s just lying on the floor like that that’s the problem? Horses that break a leg have to be put down, so if her legs can support her at all, even she folds them up, then maybe...? ????

But he pulls himself from his thoughts long enough to add, ] She wasn’t anything like you, though.

[ ... keeping her curious = keeping her alert? Right? ]