She smiles. "Maybe."

Then she leaves.

Gren eventually runs out of children's books to read. So she starts writing the story of the evacuation of Greece as she saw it using her terrible handwriting and small vocabulary.

Someone comes in to talk to her about next-of-kin and familial connections and things – they apologize for taking so long, hospital inefficiency, you– probably don't know because you're a kid but still.

Her dad has been dead for years. Her mom is Sandalay Nylund. Her brother is Errol Nylund. They probably won't find either of them. She has no idea where any of her cousins or extended family are but can name many of them. She likes Evelyn who keeps visiting her.

She keeps the talk of magic and other worlds to a minimum. It would just raise a fuss about making things up.

That's probably very wise of her! They take notes of the names and promise that they'll try to get in contact with them. Is there anything she needs right now, or is she okay with the things she already has?

Other than her family and going home? She likes books, but Evelyn has been bringing her some to borrow. The hospital gives her food. She doesn't seem to consider clothes at all important.

She still wants to go to church in two days on Sunday but otherwise she's good.

Oh! They have a chapel in the hospital if she'd like to use that? He's willing to show her the way there, if she wants and feels up to it, or someone could come show her on Sunday instead?

"Sunday is fine. I don't need to be in a church to pray, but you go to mass on Sundays."

That should work. If that's all, he'll leave her to continue with her reading and such.

The things she wants, they can't get her. So they can just leave and keep in mind that a new family is not the same as Mom and Errie...

They're trying to find them but unfortunately they haven't had any luck yet. If she'd like to speak to a counsellor about this, that can be arranged…?

"What's a counseller? Dunno much English."

"A therapist? Someone you talk to to go through your thoughts on a topic and who tries to help you if you're feeling down or worried."

"I can't talk about four of five things I'm worried about because nobody believes me about it."

"Well, the therapist is available if you decide you need them," he says, "but if you don't, we won't force you to talk to them."

She shakes her head, skeptical of the value of being scoffed at and told magic isn't real some more.

"Okay," he says, shrugging. "Just tell a nurse if you need anything." Then he leaves.

Back to writing the story of a little girl running from monsters, getting magic, then getting lost in a weird country where nobody believes anything she says.

Someone will totally read this at some point and think she's making it up again but she doesn't care.

Evelyn is back the next day with a few books! "Hi there," she says, coming into the room.

"Ooh, books. Hi. I ran out of things to read so I wrote a book too. Real short though."

"Oh? What's it about?"

"...Everything that happened to me. But I gave the family different names and made some things up and said it's just a story so nobody says I'm lying about magic again."

"Mm." She thinks a bit. "Most people don't believe in magic existing, because it hasn't and doesn't as far as most people know, but if you show them the light thing and the flight, they might believe you?" She shrugs. "It's probably not a good idea to do that with everyone, though – I don't know how they'll all react."

"Huh. Well how do I choose some between nobody and everybody?"

"How do you choose who, you mean? Um. … I'm not really sure? I mean, I reacted okay, I think, and your magic seems like it could be useful, but some people might be mean about it or something – people can react badly when unexpected things happen."