( It also just sounds weird and wrong from Americans, but she doesn't touch on that. She's too caught up in the bit about Georgia, about the person he's missing, and it makes her chest ache, like she's been trying to pry open her ribcage to get at something that she knows won't be there once it cracks open. )

She's there all the time. Every bleedin' minute, I'm pretty sure. Feels like I can't breathe for how much room she takes up, sometimes.

( Sarissa's voice is very quiet when she says that. It's a hard thing, to be so painfully in love with someone who is so absent, and who you don't know where things stand with. When she first got here, she wouldn't even call her Georgia, just Satan, the worst, a traitor that tore everything apart, took to Sarissa's life like a wrecking ball. None of that was true, though, and it definitely wasn't fair. At least, she didn't know if it was true, and it probably wasn't fair. )

She sounds like a good sort. I'd ask her name, but I figure - secret identity stuff, yeah? What's she like?

( Softly, she asks: )
And um, what happened? To make you get the powers? Or was it like... some weird puberty thing, the rest of us got crappy skin and growth spurts, and you got super speed?

( A way out. A way to avoid talking about the hard stuff, if he doesn't wanna. Seems fair, after how he's trying to help her. )