[Listening is easy, and returning that smile is too. Rei does understand, just as much as Mars. A lost home, it's...hard...thinking about what Mars used to be, and all sorts of things. War, war, and more war.

Letting out a slow breath, she answers the unspoken question first.]

I do understand. I'm...well, I'm a soldier myself. I've led people before. In my world, I am the Goddess of Flame and War. It sort of goes with the territory.

[Fidgeting a little, looking warily at the other woman, she dips her head.]

Would you object to me...going back to my normal self? I don't like conversing like this, but I want you to keep it a secret. Who I really am, that is. If you don't want to, though, I'll stay like this.