[ Sounds good to Alice. She turns to the bonfire and clutches her lantern with both hands, by the metal ring on top, and is about to close her eyes when-- ]

You don't have to be alone. [ She talks to the non-human girl, but she keeps facing the bonfire. ] I get it. Humans are... pretty fucking terrible a lot of the time.

But some of us don't hurt others just because we can.

[ Jesus, what is she even saying. ]

I'll go around to the other side of the bonfire and leave you alone, but if you want company, I-- .. I'm fine sharing a space and not talking.

[ That's... kind of what being in a library is like. If she can ever find someone who'll sit there with her for hours and just read and research, and then come home with her? Perfection. ]