[ the natalie mention makes her frown. papika still isn't over what happened to her since... you know. that was A Lot.

at his question though, the frown just deepens. papika has tried to explain this to several others before, and none of them has really got it. she wonders if she should just approach the topic from a different angle. ]

The fragments we were collecting... they're in another world, and only certain people can go to it. I can only go there if I'm with Cocona, so if she decides to stop, then for her, we wouldn't be doing dangerous stuff anymore. [ a pause. ] She didn't want to do it at all at first. The first few times we visited it was on accident so she didn't have a choice.