The bar was...unusually reticent, in the lower layers of her mind (and she hadn't pried further; she wasn't sure if she'd be noticed; she wasn't sure if offending would get her kicked out, and regardless of whether it was actually safe it was safer than anywhere else she'd been for the past...three years?) so she couldn't be sure this place wasn't really a trap of some kind, but the higher layers gave a plausible explanation that didn't involve being a trap, and whatever else it was warm and dry and had food. Her guard was probably a full 25% down. Positively trusting, these days.
Whee indeed. Edie may or may not be grinning like a loon, she can't tell, she can't see her face to tell whether or not her grin counts as loony.
"Because you didn't have anyone to go with or because they're not your kinda thing?"
"Because I would've tripped and broken my neck. I sat out of gym. I could barely walk across a level linoleum floor without falling."
"Mostly balance. My gross motor control wasn't that great, I'd knock mugs off tables and stuff, but my handwriting and so on were fine."
"Aaand the package is much better now, thanks to the magic of not having to kill your monsterfied peers to not join them."
Particularly swishy waltz step in lieu of unwaltzly twirling. "I wish I had a way of getting Milliways doors on demand. Or--consistently, anyway."
"...I'm going to finish my letter to--and--wait--I just realized it's probably possible to use Milliways to cheat at archaeology."