"Hey!" she says with a large smile.  It's nice their faces seem familiar... but their names!

(She makes sure to keep her eyes well away from the Very Tight Shorts... well, as much as she can.)

"What's up?  Now that we're all tired out?"

"Well... I'm in the mood for reading some science, just while I'm still awake" says one of the boys. One of the girls talks about finally being able to do some real nursing in a hospital, while another talks about trying to start doing one of the self-sufficiency things. "Anything fun you want to do?" the first boy asks.

Science in another world - she's got a fleeting thought of how Kiri would really love to see that.  But Kiri's not here.

"Oh, I was thinking of trying some fencing.  But -" she rubs her arms "- maybe when I'm not so tired.  For now, I heard there was a small theater group somewhere around here..."

"Yes, that's right. They have you sign up via like. The app."

"I haven't had a chance to check it out yet - what're they doing?" 

She takes out her phone and taps on The App - the same app that showed the menus, unless her instincts point her somewhere else - to try to search for "theater."

"Some like... sappy drama about a man saving the world but having to leave his adoptive daughter behind? It's the obvious one that everyone knows."

Jenwy wrinkles her nose.  "Sappy...  But still, if it's the only theater - there need to be some non-sappy parts there."

She doesn't like too much sappiness either.  But she can't hold herself back from trying to hear what this obvious story is!  A new story she's never heard ever before in all Ev!

She can find the theatre group, and find the play they're performing. It doesn't sound very interesting, so to speak, but it's clear that it gets performed a lot.

Well, she's not going to dive into reading the whole plot arc now in front of everyone, but she opens up a page for later...

... "Who does like sappiness, really?" she says with a slight laugh.  "I wonder how it gets performed so much!"

(It's a really frequent subplot in Ev too, for some reason she could never make out.)

"I guess because it's like. Not weird or different?"

"Weird?  Like, oh, it turns out half of them are time travelers?"

"That'd make you have to re-think a lot and would be weird, yes." They seem to be surprised at how Jenwy came up with that suggestion.

Well, see, last night she was half-thinking she'd been kidnapped by them...

... and that was because she'd seen them in several books and films.  Not that she'd really wrapped her head around the puzzles some of them had tried to write with multiple timelines and -

"Well yeah, sappiness isn't weird, but there're other non-weird things you could do.  Like, oh, wilderness camping or nursing."  She gestures at the people who'd mentioned those two things.

"In a theater show? People don't just... do things from everyday life in theater performances, they have to be about super-important things to people!"

"And sappiness is?"

"Being forced to abandon your daughter to save the world is super-important to people!"

"Oh, now that's different!"  (It is.)  "But getting all sappy about it -"  She shakes her head, still grinning.

They get more and more weirded out and confused by Jenwy. "What's making you act this... schizotypal?"

"What!?"

Just when she'd let her guard down a touch about imitating Other Her -

How can she recover - no, she doesn't know, she doesn't know what Other Her was like -

"You... don't think you sound weird, a lot?"

"... Yeah, I guess I've decided some things in myself need to change..."

"You somehow seemed more... Shy than usual, as well. Like more careful with how you move?"

"Y...yeah.  I'm not so sure of myself as I thought I was..."

"You'd want to talk to one of your parents, I think."

An adult.

Presumably not her parents; she catches the reference to what's presumably the 'Group-Parents' she's heard of from utopian projects.

An adult who's presumably not a fairy or time-traveler, and who'll probably hear of her sooner or later.  And if she refuses, she'll probably just sound more suspicious.

"... Yeah.  I think I should.  Let me see..."  She glances down at her schedule on her phone to see when she'll have a free slot.