She smiled at him again. "I was very weak before I came here. And...and, I think that it was meant for me. To be here and to find you. For what purpose, I do not know, but I know that I am stronger now, here."
She'd never have been able to go out on her own and mix with people and speak to people she did not know, to mix with girls her own age. She would never have been comfortable in these clothes and in this life.