Anise giggled. “I guess you have a point there.” She didn’t know of anyone who fit that description, but she’d heard a lot of people complaining about ways their body had been changed. Although she could joke about it, she had to admit… that had to be horrible for them. Anise was just glad she’d been spared that kind of terror – though only barely, considering the illness that she’d just been cured of.

But Anise wanted to keep the mood light, so she figured she’d spare Tsurugi her thoughts about the creepier aspects of the institute. Five days were more than enough for things to start wearing a person down. It was nice to have a semi-normal conversation once in a while, wasn’t it?

“So, um… what kind of stuff did you do back home? Before… this stuff.” She twirled a finger as if to point at the entire institute around them in a single gesture.