She's eager to bend down and pick up the two puppies, one in each arm, and manages a slightly tight laugh when he mentions that she should just be ready for anything happening.

"You know, I think I'm slightly more used to that than some of the other people who come here. My older brother, Garrett, seems to attract the unexpected." Perhaps more accurately it was her family line that attracted the unexpected, given what her father had gone through with the Wardens.

To his other words, though, she merely nods. "Nothing is ever all bad. It's just sometimes harder to look on the bright side of things, I suppose." She shifts to let the puppies settle in her arms and sighs. It was too long being the eternal optimist, maybe.

"...at least the closet can give me any sort of dresses I fancy, though I half expect them to one day try to wear me."