"Yes. He's an alien. But he doesn't bark, and I was teaching him lots of words." She smiled and sipped her juice, making a satisfied slurping sound as she finished the box.
She listened to the fact that he was raised by his sister too. "Mom and Dad didn't mean to go, they had to. And they're still here, sometimes I know they watch me. Nani's a good sister and she tries hard. When she comes here you'll like her, everyone does." Nodding to the offer of food, she bounced a little in her seat. "It'll be nice to live in a house with lots of people again. Sometimes our house got too quiet. It was too loud."