I'm sorry. [ Luna looks at the smile carefully, unsure. But she... knows people can take death differently. It changes a person, after all. ] Me too.

[ She pets the Thestral for a moment. They really are magnificent creatures, though. And she can appreciate someone who likes creatures as much as she does. ]

This is the herd at my school. I spent more time with them than I did with much else. [ People are.... unkind, back home. Creatures are much better. It's different now. She has friends. But Thestrals were always her friends first. ] I find I like them much better than my peers.

[ That... surprises her. A dreamwalker? She's... never heard of anything like that before. She knows Sodder has abilities to alter the walls of dreaming but... this man? Is he related to Sodder somehow? ]

You have magic to travel through dreams? A power to? [ A beat. ] Are you like Sodder?