[ she smiles in return. ]

Very ready. Consider me your first paying customer.

[ the next statement has her pausing and thinking, brow furrowed in a slight frown. ]

I’ve heard…strange things about this place. [ several of her conversations upon her first arrival come to mind. ] That it is a place between life and death. I don’t remember dying, back home. So I suppose that I’m not one of the ‘dead ones’.