Alice couldn’t help but let out a bark of a laugh at how absurd this conversation was, but at the same time she supposed that was just another facet of the village she had to get used to, she supposed. “Not… quite.” In that sense, she supposed she was lucky that both her parents acknowledged and cared about her. “It’s just tense all around, because no one is used to the other person at the age they are… except for maybe my brother and I because we’ve had our entire lives together. And there has been a lot of needless fighting.”