That was a bit different, surely. People weren't coming down there specifically to gawk at you. I know I came down there asking stupid questions, but I wasn't gawking.

[She says this last part in a tone caught somewhere between defensiveness and apology.]

I just needed to know where I stood, you know? I guess you could have been bullshitting me when you said you'd been tossed down there for no reason, but things already weren't adding up. I just needed to hear it.

[She shrugs, and once more she's quick to try pulling away from anything that gets too deep, or dark, or serious.]

Besides, there's a significant difference between needing a sonic and hairbrush, and looking like that.