Kid, she didn't tell you an eighth of it. She shrugged a bit. "Most people are. Sorry they asked, that is. Sorry doesn't do anything, but you know what does do something? Being the person that helps so that someone else doesn't go through that."

She snorted a bit. "You really must be from another world then," she said, but there was an amused quirk to her lips. "Either that or you had someone like Marrin around to cuff some manners into you." Marrin would adore this kid. What she didn't know is how much this kid would adore Marrin on sight. Marrin would have been considered a monster in Ceiphro at a glance. Then again, given what happened to her son... even in Kaylin's world, the word monster had a painful sort of power.

She nodded. "Yeah. This place is kind of the pits. But at least there is food. And there is good work we can be doing." But... who took care of the kids? The only kid she knew here was Link, maybe she should ask him if the adults he lived with could help find this kid a home?