They are so sharp, so quick on the uptake, she wonders if it's just that easy to get into the cracks of her. She'd be the first to admit that she hasn't kept as careful a control over her persona since her arrival, but without all her informants, the straight path of the story she's been writing for so long, it's much, much harder to find her place in it.

She goes slowly, her hands steady, as she adds some lines for depth.

"Well... yes. It's difficult to project the way any of us see the world, truly. But if you can do something right, it will stick in their mind. They imagine it as you do."