Again Jane uses terms Amelia doesn't fully know. At least this time they come with questions she does know more than well enough to answer. "I've never had any troubles being on Earth, this one or the few others I've visited. I suspect that means things are mostly the same? If I can move and breathe in the ways I expect."
Ah, but her last question is one of the more difficult ones for her. Amelia's expression turns a little somber as she frowns. It's been a long time since she had to explain this to a stranger.
"I ended up in the Nexus quite without meaning to. Ran down an alley in the city I grew up in just to turn around and find myself there. Eventually, my world was... locked away from the rest of the multiverse, and the Nexus became the closest thing I had to a home. It was there that I met Thor and a few others from this version of Earth, and became friends with them through all the struggles they were going through. Eventually that led me here to help Thor while Asvera was still finding its bearings, and then..." She lifts a hand palm up and shrugs.
"I could tell you that everything I did for them was selfless and solely for their benefit, but it wasn't. This place reminds me so much of the home I once had: a town on the sea, ships going in and out from sun up to sun down, minimal technology that I'd been trying to adapt to for half a decade. I needed to be here for myself. Helping everyone was my way in, and a way to keep my mind from my grief." Her lips pull into a sad smile as she drops her hand. "It saved me as much as I helped it, in more ways than one. I couldn't have made it this far without everyone here, or without Thor's friendship. I owe them a debt I could never repay, even as I know they'll never ask for it. It's not their way." Something she's both terrified of and grateful for every day, when she's honest with herself. She sighs softly, eyes tracking out to the sea.
"When any of this truly became more for me, I couldn't say. I've always been one who had to be led to her feelings, and it's the same here. What I do know is that I found my way here and never truly left, no matter how long I lived in the Nexus after first setting foot on this soil. And now... this place is my home, and these are my people. People I intend to give the whole of my life to in whatever way they need."
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Ah, but her last question is one of the more difficult ones for her. Amelia's expression turns a little somber as she frowns. It's been a long time since she had to explain this to a stranger.
"I ended up in the Nexus quite without meaning to. Ran down an alley in the city I grew up in just to turn around and find myself there. Eventually, my world was... locked away from the rest of the multiverse, and the Nexus became the closest thing I had to a home. It was there that I met Thor and a few others from this version of Earth, and became friends with them through all the struggles they were going through. Eventually that led me here to help Thor while Asvera was still finding its bearings, and then..." She lifts a hand palm up and shrugs.
"I could tell you that everything I did for them was selfless and solely for their benefit, but it wasn't. This place reminds me so much of the home I once had: a town on the sea, ships going in and out from sun up to sun down, minimal technology that I'd been trying to adapt to for half a decade. I needed to be here for myself. Helping everyone was my way in, and a way to keep my mind from my grief." Her lips pull into a sad smile as she drops her hand. "It saved me as much as I helped it, in more ways than one. I couldn't have made it this far without everyone here, or without Thor's friendship. I owe them a debt I could never repay, even as I know they'll never ask for it. It's not their way." Something she's both terrified of and grateful for every day, when she's honest with herself. She sighs softly, eyes tracking out to the sea.
"When any of this truly became more for me, I couldn't say. I've always been one who had to be led to her feelings, and it's the same here. What I do know is that I found my way here and never truly left, no matter how long I lived in the Nexus after first setting foot on this soil. And now... this place is my home, and these are my people. People I intend to give the whole of my life to in whatever way they need."