"I— no, you're fine," Starla responds, almost apologetic as she snaps free of her temporary trance and flashes a heartfelt little grin as she looks at me again. "It's not a subject I've given thought to for a while. It's sobering to remember where I came from, but it helps to put things in perspective, too. And Teddy came along... well, again, time is something sort of hard for me to grasp. But from everything that I remember, I don't have many memories without him, so he must have come early on. I don't think I spent much time isolated."