"No, they can leave any time, but that's where they sleep and eat, and they get help with whatever they have trouble doing that means they can't make money."

"Help?" Eefa asks, suspicious.

"Sure, like if they can't walk, the social services people get them a chair with wheels to sit in, or if they can't learn to read, then the social services people will read to them anything they need to know."

"And if they don't want the help?"

"- well, if they can't get jobs and don't have any money, don't have family who want them to live with them, and won't take any help with their problems, I guess they would just keep having their problems."

"And they'd get to leave?"

"People don't even have to go to social services in the first place unless they're getting in other people's way, if they don't want to."

"Oh."

"So they're not like me."

"They're adults. Kiddos sometimes think they don't need to be taken care of, and that's almost never true."

Blank stare.

Yeah she does that sometimes. "If we could be sure we wouldn't lose you we could go out with you sometimes."

Eefa nods. She doesn't know how to make them sure even if she definitely wanted to. She sorta feels like they might be better than most people she's known but she doesn't trust that feeling.

She doesn't want to be trapped here forever.

"Are you lonesome? We could have visitors over."

Eefa doesn't know what to say to that.

She doesn't want more people to be trapped here with her.

"You can think about it as long as you need."

Unless she finds a way to escape first she thinks, without much enthusiasm for the concept.

They continue to go about their days, trying her on new foods, putting on new movies, proposing new games, staging conversations trying to draw her out - what they dreamed last night, where they'd like to travel next time they have a vacation, how many times they've moved house...

Eefa's food boundaries don't change much, but the oranges are liable to discover that within the space of foods she is willing to eat she has her own likes and dislikes - things that have juice or are salty are particular favorites.

She has little to no idea what in the movies is real and what is fake, but enjoys them at times. Movies without anything bad happening she treats as unrealistic. She likes movies where people explore neat places.

She gets used to the concept that losing a game doesn't have negative real world consequences eventually. She still doesn't like competitive games where people might make each other worse off during the game, and absolutely hates games where people judge each other and award points. She likes cooperative games and games that involve art or cooperative problem solving.

The conversation about what they dreamed the night before causes her to freeze up and shiver. She refuses to eat dinner that evening. 

She is confused about the concept of vacation.

When they discuss how often they've moved house she tries to count for herself, one finger at a time, flinching at some of the worse memories. She gives up by finger seven, not wanting to think about it anymore.

They can explain vacations. "We don't work every day of every month of every year," Mikko explains. "Usually, people with jobs get some time off when they don't have to do their jobs and can relax. At home, but sometimes people like to travel to new places and see neat things there when they have a vacation that's long enough. On my last vacation I went to Shi Alassei. It's here on the map." There's a map placemat.

"And you came back to where you started afterwards?" Eefa asks skeptically. 

"Yup. I came home to my own apartment and my family."

"Why'd you leave then?"

"To see Shi Alassei! But I didn't want to live there."

"If it's not very nice why did you want to see it?"

"- it is nice, I just wanted to go home when I was done seeing things there."