[She purses her lips, hesitant at first. Shutting down and holding things in hasn't been doing her any good and Natalie did offer...]

I haven't mentioned it to many people but I have children back home. I didn't remember when we all first woke up, [And that stings like the dickens to admit. What kind of mother just forgets her children?] but I know now I have seven.

...Had seven.