"What social life?" She meant it as a joke, smiling as she posed the hypothetical question. "Thre's no real restaurant to go out to with friends, which is pretty much all we did as far as socializing back home." It had an edge of back when to it, a double-edged nostalgia heavy with it's own accepted sadness.

"We should look into fixing that," she said, mind wandering to Marco -- then back again. Celena may be as willing to utilize her natural flying for to act as reconnaissance, and was far less troubling to deal with. "Between the group of us here, mapping locations should be as close to safe, necessary work as we get."

His last statement prompted her into laughing, for a brief time. "Kids did get everywhere when we had the problem with that clock. They just stuck around where they felt safer, that's all. Had everyone affected stayed that age... things might have been different. I don't know. When do you think adults stop looking to find strange new places in the things around them?"