For a moment, Corbie's face softened and threatened to crumple. But she shook her head in response. "It's nothing. Just feeling being here a little more keenly lately." Which was true enough that she could say it without twitching all over.

True enough. It wasn't as if she'd ever managed to make friends with the girls at the Institute, given they were all good little middle class kids and she wasn't, but she'd had people, something she still hadn't really managed in... months here. It rankled, but what good was pouting about it going to do except make her more unappealing to be around?

And she didn't know how to explain why it bothered her without sounding stupid, so.