"Well, I pride myself on being very nice," she said, straightening her spine a little bit. It was Ariadne's trademark, really. Endlessly polite and aggressively optimistic. It made her quite the oddity. Throw in the fact that she was Alastrian and, well...

But no one knew that. It wasn't safe for people to know that. Back home, anyway. Here, she wasn't sure what people would think.

More probabilities she couldn't see.

"It's much easier, I think. Being nice. People were meant to be that way. We were meant to help each other."