"Does she always take this long to think?" Miss Stella asked Mark with a little whisper. "Or is she just in shock about what happened? I can understand since she is a kid and..."
"No, no. That's not it." Mark said. "Alice is a bit... Different." He glanced at Alice, his worries falling at ease since she was reverting to her usual habit. "I believe she'll tell you about it herself."
Miss Stella was still quite confused. Couldn't he tell her instead? This was a matter of a child's mental stability.
Well, they did say S-class awakeneds were crazy in the head, but if it's affecting a child of 17 to the extent she starts hallucinating and having conversations in her head, then it was quite concerning.
Yet, these two didn't seem to worry one bit.
Then, was it nothing to be worried about, to begin with?
