"Oh, I'm not sure exactly who they are, but they are still here. You could probably ask around. I wonder if they must look at us and think we're naive to believe we could go back, since they must have given up some time ago." Rinoa's only guessing of course, but she thinks if she was there for a few years, she'd just come to accept this was her life. She doesn't want it to be. She wants to go home with Squall and with their friends. Maybe find closure with her father now that she understands they could lose each other in an instant.

"Sometimes people disappear, possibly to go home, and then they come back having never experienced being here. Honestly ... I'm not sure how that happens or what it means. It's not my area of expertise." She's young and inexperienced, and this is a topic way over her head. She's parroting what she's read, not speculating on her own.