[Lapis hasn't minded going off point. Someone with an experience similar to her own is new. Having anything to offer is new.]

[Her voice is soft, faintly hoarse. She doesn't always say so much at once.]

I think . . . I've found that the world isn't always happy. But worth exploring.

I think, though, if I hadn't found the right people, I would have felt the same. That it was hard. And maybe I wouldn't have.

[After all, her only goal had been to get back home -- back to what was familiar and secure. Vista City shifted more than she had thought at the time.]

[She would like to know more, but Rapunzel has changed the subject, and Lapis doesn't push. The subject seems delicate (or at least her own is for her), and she herself doesn't like to be pushed. They've also only just met.]

Yes. We were.

There . . . aren't many. Unless you pay for it.