Nita tilts her head, eyes darkening as she takes in what Curufin says.

"... Yeah. I didn't hide things nearly as long as you did, though," she admits.

She was only mortal, after all; that would be rather difficult!

"It's - when my mom died, depression hit me pretty hard. I had to pull through, to keep my family going - but they had to deal with me, too, and I wasn't letting them help, or Kit, until it was almost too late."

Until Kit had almost been lost. But she didn't want to go into that just now.

The stress on her face fades a little, and she smiles.

"You think... if the train weren't in the middle of all this, losing its homeworld, that it would normally be a wanderer, too?"

If they all could have met under brighter circumstances...