"It feels silly. Because I didn't use to care much about... stuff. Things can be replaced, right? And of everything that survived, I'm glad it's the people." Even if not all of them. She has to hope that maybe they just landed in other worlds, and are fine. Instead of locked up in some human zoo.

"But there's little sentimental things I miss. Like the shells that Fio brought me back from the beach, one was the colors of the sunset. Or... Catduggy, the plush that Maximilien gave me for my birthday. Or the little pearl my friend Helena could use to track me down, and now she can't," if she's out there, somewhere, searching... "I put it on a friendship bracelet from Undine." She had sworn to herself to never take it off, even after the girl was long gone.

Ava fidgets with her hands a bit. "Or our wedding rings. I think that one is the hardest." Not just because while wearing it, it took away so much of the pain, and now it's even worse.

"But I'm happy to start over here, somewhere that... everyone can be happier, I hope."