"Thank you very much, and it's very nice to meet you too. That's a pretty name, Soma..." she replied, smiling at her. "Where are you from, if you don't mind my asking?" She couldn't say she'd heard a name like that before, and it really was pretty.

"It really is jarring, to say the least, waking up to find everything's changed so radically," she continued, a moment later. "Do you mind if I ask...this may sound incredibly naive of me, but have people tried negotiating with the person running this place for our release? Not that I expect it would be successful if the man is no longer with us, but..."

Euphie closed her eyes for a moment, thinking. "I know that must seem like a terribly odd question to ask, but a...dear friend of mine is also here and filled me in on a lot of information," she added, a small, sheepish smile on her face.