[ It's not a bad thing he says, but there's something strange about hearing it. Ruka knows that things are different, and have been for a while — it crops every time she has to talk about people she knew, or people she lost, and the way things happened. Of course she was treated the way she was; with the kind of person she was, it was what she deserved.

When he says it like that, though, it makes her feel seen in a way she isn't expecting — because if he can see the change now, then it means he was able to see what she was like, back then (even if, to him, it was only however-many relative months ago that she vanished). It hadn't felt like anyone could see her, back then.

Maybe her own vision was a lot cloudier than she thought.

She says nothing to this, though; she watches Tadashi with an open sense of not-quite surprise, not-quite confusion, before eventually settling on a simple sort of realization, a little hm sound that she chases with a sip of her own coffee. It's strange, being remembered in a way that matters. ]

Um, they had me in a couple places. I was in De Chima before I moved to Jeopardy, last year, after it appeared. But with... everything that happened, and... is happening, I guess, it wasn't a good idea for me to stay there, so I'm back in Heropa.

[ Does he know? Does he not know? (Did he just forget to say, or was there a reason to skip it? She would have thought...) ]

... For right now, I'm crashing at Jaime's place.