A few weeks was impressively good! Some people could be remarkably stubborn on accepting that sort of thing, so that reaction managed to at least earn a few more points.

But, of course, Tisarwat would see something like maleability as something worth noting, too.

She nodded a little. "That happens a lot, I hear. I at least had the benefit of knowing I was being sent somewhere, even if I'm not sure if this was actually where I was supposed to go. And two people in my life who I knew that didn't know me was kind of a surprise. It's an odd place, this island, but, like you yourself said, it could be worse. And coming in with weirdness definitely helps prepare you for some of the other stuff to come."