Rinoa's starting to settle in, but it's still too strange to feel right. She keeps expecting the earth to move under her feet and for this all to be some hallucination or a trick. It's elaborate, for something the sorceress would do, but she is paranoid about it anyway. Still, she tries her best to make her time every day count. She cleans the house, she makes certain they have food or access to food, she walks in the safer parts of town and greets strangers with a smile. It's so far from the SeeD it might as well be another universe, and it is. Another universe.

There's too much time to dwell, and Rinoa hates dwelling, but when she walks quietly by herself it happens. So when she sees a man scrounging around, obviously part of the village, she decides to approach him. He's very tall and normally she really should be aware of Stranger Danger, but everyone's been nice so far and no one's put out a warning about a dangerous person. Only dangerous animals. "Hello," she calls out to him, brushing dark hair over her shoulder. She's a willowy teenager with a naive air about her. "Are you collecting that for firewood?"