[ She didn't miss that hint of sadness. Even if that place had sounded hellish, a truly dying world... it was still where she was born, wasn't it? She got it... ]

I lost the world where I was born, too. It's gone, forever trimmed from the great tree of existence, a branch that was never meant to grow in the first place...

[ Or so that seemed to be part of the explanation. She never really understood it, how it was all supposed to work. Least of all she never understood why she'd managed to survive, why she was crossing between worlds... ]

But I found a place to belong...

[ With her Master. With Ritsuka. ]