[They'll make a habit of this, she decides instantly, and before she has the chance to stop the thought from coming out, head so full of ideas it leaks through, why couldn't it hold all these limes?]

You'll have to do me next. So I can -- see.

[Even with her memories intact, she can't remember the last time it happened, either. Not since she was a child and having someone comb her hair was less intimacy and more 'sweetie, look proper for this formal event'. Had she ever had something like this...? Had her mom ever thought about it, with all the other things she thought about letting Ryder experience that she'd missed out on? The thoughts dovetail nicely into Teo's question, whether he knows it or not.]

Um... My mom, maybe. I don't -- know if she's the kind to -- survive this. [Which hurts to say out loud, no matter how many times it had occurred to her. She wants to see her. If she wasn't out there, or had become something else, did she really want to know? Was it a cliffhanger to drive her crazy or a blank page to project hope onto?] She's -- all I really had. I guess I got -- some step-siblings out there, but I never really -- knew them.