"Mmhm." She brushes some hair out of her face, briefly uncovering the empty socket before it inevitably falls back into place. "This is all... very new to me. Back home no one really... talks about it. Any of it. If they did, maybe... maybe we wouldn't all be so screwed up. I don't know."

It's blunter than Ruby would usually be, but with every step she takes along this path the more thinking she's been doing.

"It still feels strange. I want— I want to feel better, but every new thing is like climbing a mountain."