She hesitated mostly because she honestly wasn't sure of the answer. "I...don't know, exactly. I mean... there were a bunch of things? You knew about some of them, but I wasn't really... getting it then, I guess." How deliberate that had been was something she only tried looking at from the corner of her eye. "And then there was the plague, and... well, it took a while. You may've noticed I'm not the fastest person around."
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