"Nnn." Ellever frowns, shrugging. "I mean, they'd just gotten to Beacon, just found out about everything, and then they had to live with a stranger. So, there was some friction, but none of us settle in smoothly here."

She pauses, glancing at him before she looks back out into the dark of the forest.

"Unless you were. But I certainly wasn't. I was rattled as hell," she says, chuckling. "And most people I talk to right off the ferry are, too, even if they're trying to hide it."