Re: Lisa/Alessa
...Alessa, I'm glad you're alive. You have no idea how glad I was to see you when I arrived in this city. But it's obvious something has changed in the past few days, and while there are some complications, maybe there are some benefits too.
This is just a complicated situation. I don't know quite what to say. Maybe they thought you already knew the extent of the burning, or maybe they had some other reason for not telling you. I'm just trying to think of what I'd want if I were the one in this situation, and that is that I'm not sure I'd want to remember a whole bunch of horrible stuff that was done to me, by my own mother no less.
Don't apologize to me. You did nothing wrong. I can understand why you're frustrated, and I'm sorry if I'm adding to that. I don't know what happened to you from 14 to 21 either, but maybe that's better left unsaid, too. Do you remember that, by any chance?