[Ah, but his silence says it all. She is too perceptive a girl not to take it for what it is when he pauses, and she is better informed than to assume that anyone who has been here that long has had a comfortable stay. The girl tucks her head slightly, the smile she offers put there purposefully for his sake despite how almost sad it seems.]

That is lucky. No one should have to be alone in a place like this. I'm... glad for you, and for your brother and your friends.

[Hands folding together, she regards him. She doesn't address his pause directly, though she says,]

But it's okay. [To tell the whole truth, that is.] I've already heard what it's like here.