Am I that easily read? [her brow pinches very briefly in a pained expression before she lightly smiles it off. internally, though, she's bothered by it. not that she'd been sitting around being stone-faced and subtle, but...she doesn't like to share her true feelings about this or that with others unless she's properly vetted them...and herself.]

Mm. I suppose so, in this case. I am not unfamiliar with adapting to unusual circumstances, but most commonly when I am...much more in my element, so to speak. Which is, ah, to say...not utterly ripped free of my own resources, reliant on the whims of charity and...peculiarly generous systems. [she's squinting by the end of that, her gaze off of him and more toward the city behind him. it's now happened twice, being thrust into a foreign world without any control, and in both...the rulers were apt to keep everyone content with a fair amount of handouts.

peculiar indeed.]