[Was she expecting it to? No, certainly not, but she was desperately clinging to the very slim hope that it was a costume. A practical joke...or something. One swivel of that ear dashes every last hope she has, though, and now she's gonna have to try to accept that.

It'll take a while. Probably.

She makes a face at him, somewhere between a pout and a glare.]

Of course not. No one could take something like this just on faith!

[What kind of idiot does he think she is, anyway?! ...But she falls quiet when he says that. Not the place to chat? If someone like him is saying that...just how dangerous is this place?

She tries very, very hard to put on a nonchalant face as she follows him through the dark woods, silently, staring at his wings as she goes along. She stumbles on one or two occasions over a root or a rock. Other than that, though? She's quiet. Unusually quiet -- although it doesn't last too long. Eventually she can't help it.]

So... [she begins, uncertainly,] What's with this place, anyway? I know it's not Japan, but...how far away are we?

[...] And what about Jin -- he's not here, too, is he?

[She doesn't even wanna think about what he might be turning into. Some kind of giant fish or something? (Fur-bearing trout aren't even REAL, she has to remind herself, thinking back to those stupid pamphlets.)]