"Well.." She lingers on that word for a moment, staring up at the sky. Apparently it's not an easy question for the girl to answer.

"I think it sounds like a nice place. And I also think that every place out there has both good and bad sides." So that's not the problem. Honestly, even if life there would be more difficult than what she's been doing back home, Madoka really wouldn't mind it. "And being with you, and papa, and everyone else.. that'd be fun too."

All that is easy to think of, at least. But it's the part after that makes her pause.

"But if the train gave me the choice to go anywhere I want.. I think I'd still probably go home. It's just.. If I didn't go back, it'd feel like I was just running away. Even now it kind of feels like I abandoned everyone."