[Okay, Emma actually laughs at that. Just a little, but it's there. To busy herself she grabs one of the skirts to lay it out and note how long it is.]

If felt like a nightmare at first. [At first because she had to wake up to the reality or die. She doesn't want to frighten Kaoru that badly though.] Mm, yeah. I didn't realize until I was eleven. That means all the children who were "adopted" before me died. And I couldn't bring everyone with me when we escaped...

[Even though that was the one thing she aimed to do. She can't dwell on that or she'll get stuck second guessing her plan again. Every month here is another month she isn't working towards rescuing them... The discussion of Kaoru's work sounds like the best distraction from thinking about that.]

Was it like secret missions since you couldn't talk about it? I bet with your powers you could solve all sorts of problems.