Okay, Sheena's answer didn't make a lot of sense. Not from "around here"-- what the fuck does that mean? And "he's a friend of mine", like-- Maybe that one can make sense. Definitely strange that this 20-year-old acts like she's friends with a child, but maybe it was just a poor choice of words?

"He was supposed to be safe," Anna whispers around the fear that clutches her throat. "Dirk promised--"

She doesn't want to be scared, but the thought of anyone-- anyone knowing about her son, finding out what he is-- (A list of horrid things play on repeat in her head, things she almost wishes Kratos hadn't told her, things she would have been happier off not knowing but Anna refuses to embrace blissful ignorance. The world cannot be made better if you do not first confront its ugliness.)

Anyway.

She shakes those thoughts out of her head, literally. Cuts off her emotion bleed to Malos while she's at it, because something's going on on his end and it's making it harder to think. She pinches the bridge of her nose. Breathes deeply.

"No, sorry," she says. Panicking about Lloyd right now isn't going to do anyone any good. "I guess I'm just worried about him. But..." Maybe it's fine. Anna knows what a lying face looks like, and Sheena called Lloyd friend so genuinely, and Sheena did free Zelos. Someone like that probably isn't bad company for LLoyd. Hopefully.

(And if Sheena knows Lloyd, then maybe Anna can see him, again--)

They can fuss out details later.

"We should probably get out of the open," Anna says. There's a good chance she wasn't the only one who followed them this far.