"Yeah, I kinda am," Rafe said. She stretched, arms still sore from earlier. "First long convo I've had on this stuff for a while. I even got to show off. Not stuff I get to do very often."
She lightly scuffed the ground. "It's hard finding people to talk to, let alone have heart to hearts, when most of the people around have no idea what's going on. Or it just doesn't feel like they'd get it, ya know. Not even my folks."
And before contracting, she was comfortable telling them almost everything. Afterwards...that was a whole other mess right there but she, and they, was sorta managing.