Well, at least she had that in common. "I don't have parents either," she said, softening to him just the slightest. Perhaps this was a place of misplaced orphans. Perhaps this was one sort of the World Between Worlds. Perhaps she had died and this was the afterlife.
She followed him more until he ushered her into a large building, she noted the sign on the front, Community Center. They went to the middle of the structure and he introduced her to a man named Joe Giancarlo. "Joe," she said, the name reminding her of her frenemy Poe with a pang. She'd even be happy to see right now.