She keeps her hand there for a moment longer, but looks relieved when he calms himself down and let's him go.

"I think you're right." she agrees with a little nod, smiling herself. "Don't get me wrong, surviving's great and all — but what's... the point, if that's all you're doing? We're more than that."

Mr Hickey did not get that memo, she guesses.

"You mean... he's tried something like this before? Or... wanted to? There's... things like that, in your world?"

Beings...? The idea of it makes her shrink back a little, frightened of it. But everything else she's heard sounds so... normal. There isn't even anything like that back home for her, well— except the weird snow that happened the day before she came here. But that's different.