If Circe only knew how much family drama that Ellie had to deal with over her life. The path that had lead to her and her brother being so close had been a little more than difficult filled with heartache, death, near death experiences, "arranged" marriages, crazy exs, and several rebellions to which they played their own parts in. But the fact that she didn't know about all of that, well, Ellie was glad for it. One less thing to talk about and unearth. She knew that her past had a huge part in shaping who she was today, and over the centuries she had come to terms and was a peace with most of it. However, that also didn't mean that she was ready to talk about it at the drop of a hat either. The only thing she really did was how much she cared about her not-so baby brother.
"Yeah, even though we've been here for a few years it's just nice to know that we can get together easily and not be so far away from each other." which had been the case more than once. All times seemed necessary at the time for one reason or another, but that was the nice thing about their relationship, they could be far from each other, but they were never really, truly, out of contact. Unless there was a reason they had to be, but again, that was sometimes necessary. "I'm not sure how I feel about that still, but, so far it seems to be working out." she shrugged a little.
"And I'm sure it will be cozy once you do." she offered with a positive nod of her head. At the question she titled her head a little bit. "At following directions or building from scratch?" she wondered. She could follow directions pretty well, and in a few languages though she did make a mental note that the next language she should learn would be Swedish. About building it from scratch, no, sadly, she was not that skilled. Wouldn't stop her from trying, but Ellie couldn't guarantee that it wouldn't fall apart either.
"Oh no. Even still, I'm sorry that it happened." she said with a sympathetic grin. "Is your mom doing okay?" she asked wondering about the second comment. "Or is she doing okay and she just doesn't want to deal with the drama?" she asked curiously.