Seeing a Human--well, Android--climb a tree was a little jarring. It wasn't done much in Valeria. Aside from children, of course. Jarring wasn't such a bad thing, though. At least focusing on Connor, watching him climb, pulled her thoughts away from the fire a little bit.

A very little bit.

"Don't get too close," she warned him. "I don't know if it's going to happen again. I don't want to hurt you. I can't...I can't explain what's happening."

She was no scientist, but there was, of course, the obvious variable in the whole situation.

"Ever since...the gods brought us back..." What? Was she cursed? Changed? Mutated? She didn't feel like any of those things. What she felt was...overwhelmed, more than anything else. But that seemed like a reasonable response to what she and the others had gone through in the cave.