Keman jumped when the woman sitting next to him spoke. He'd been so out of it that he'd barely realized she was there!

She was also...rather pretty, even in the plain brown dress she had been given.

He blushed. "S-sorry, you startled me. I...I'm not that miserable. Just a little annoyed that they wouldn't let me find my sister. Well, foster-sister, really. We're not related by blood."