It absolutely is small talk, and she is going to handily move past the inquiry by flatly ignoring it. Does it actually, in the grand scheme of the chaos around them, matter when she regained her sanity? Well. When she came back to her regular amount of sanity?
She will, however, eagerly observe as Murphy bites a random passerby and then sends them off on their merry way to kill monstrosities. And she has all sorts of questions about that.
"Oooh that is fascinating. Can you do that to anyone? Are there any ill effects? Is it something you learned or inherited? Oh, can you tell them to do anything you'd like or are they still subject to their own will?"
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She will, however, eagerly observe as Murphy bites a random passerby and then sends them off on their merry way to kill monstrosities. And she has all sorts of questions about that.
"Oooh that is fascinating. Can you do that to anyone? Are there any ill effects? Is it something you learned or inherited? Oh, can you tell them to do anything you'd like or are they still subject to their own will?"