"I've been here almost a year," Tess replied, taking a sip of the drink. "Ooh, that's good. But yeah, I've been here almost a year and it's... feeling even more surreal now than it did when I first got here."
She wasn't sure why that was, really, but it was.
It was also starting to feel... she didn't really know how to put it. Final? Because the longer she was there, the more she was pretty sure she was stuck there. She was mostly alright that, even though she missed people from home.