One breeds the other, precisely. Or exacerbates what's already there. Sometimes I wonder why it took so long for me to realize quite what she was. I feel like an utter idiot, looking back now.

[Really, it's easy for her to talk about these things. She's made peace with her former life, as much as can be made. She'd waited too long to act, but there's nothing she can do about it.]

Is Elpis the place you came from? That's a lovely name - did you know it means 'hope'? Speaking of names, you really ought to. They're more than pets, you know, they're our companions. They deserve as much sense of self as we do. Names...can be important things.

[Says the woman who won't even use her own birth name. But that's what she means. She doesn't feel she has a right to that name, now.]