She raises a hand, trying to wipe the tears off her cheeks, and she shakes her head.

"It hurts," she says.

Apparently just the sheer presence of this darkness is enough to make her be a little bit more candid about this stuff than she'd usually be, even now the worst of it has passed. But she does mean what she says - even if the worst of it is over for now, it still hurts to have had to think about all of that all over again.

"This place.. it's so cruel, forcing us to go through things like these."