I'm starting to, at the very least. [it was a work in progress, anyway.] Oh, do you work there?

Somehow that doesn't surprise me. People always tend to fear what they don't understand or see as different. [She just spent the last several years in a war filled with so much hate. But just because it happened didn't mean it was right.] I'm sorry you've had to encounter small-minded people here.

[There really was no escape from them, was there? While she was still trying to wrap her mind around aliens, she saw no reason to think of them as anything different. She had no reason to. They were trapped in this mess all the same as anyone from Earth.]