Stella doesn't comment on Kamala's mention of superheroes, because really — at this point, having heard so much about other people's worlds, it's not as far-fetched a concept as it would have been when she got here. People have magic and aliens, so superheroes are just about par for the course. If she's skeptical, she hides it well.
"I imagine it must have been," she says, quietly sympathetic. "Was that where you were before you came here?"
It sounds awful. To be kidnapped to a place like that, then abruptly find oneself somewhere else entirely, all without any chance of seeing one's home. The observers don't do anything so terrible as taking away memories — as far as Stella knows, although if she lost a few memories how would she know what was missing? — and death seems to be permanent here, but the village is terrible in its own way, small cruelties that build up over time.
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"I imagine it must have been," she says, quietly sympathetic. "Was that where you were before you came here?"
It sounds awful. To be kidnapped to a place like that, then abruptly find oneself somewhere else entirely, all without any chance of seeing one's home. The observers don't do anything so terrible as taking away memories — as far as Stella knows, although if she lost a few memories how would she know what was missing? — and death seems to be permanent here, but the village is terrible in its own way, small cruelties that build up over time.