[That stumbling of his just gets her face to twist up even more, and she closes her locker - ending up shrinking away a bit as if she's trying to be less scary.
She doesn't know for sure if he's scared, but... she's so tired of being scary.]

It's just... this place. There's a god here that turns people into monsters after they've been here for a while.
Not the locals - the people who... come in here from other worlds.

But you don't need to worry about that yet, okay? You literally just got here; you need to be taken care of first.