"Please don't misunderstand me," she said worriedly, "I love my family. My parents are amazing and my older brother is my best friend... And my grandfather! There's no one like him." She was smiling again. "But I just.. I don't think I fit in."
People tended to underestimate Tessa at times. They took her shy personality and assumed she was naive and easy to fool. But she used her shyness as a way of observing others. Her brother said she was the sneakiest of the two of them for her ability to read people. She knew of half truths when she heard them.
"You traveled too?" She tilted her head to look at him. "Have you ever been to Traneos?" It was her family's home town. City rather, and where her she currently lived and worked. "It's where I live."