"I'm not particularly thrilled with the prospect of this arrangement either, but it's the best opportunity I have right now," she continues, her tone backing off to something more calm and level-headed. "I'm at least doing something other than scrounging around for flea-bitten meals and reading material while playing hide and seek with humanity. And at least with what has been agreed upon, what I've been learning has an application now instead of being useless information."