_{[Her grin fades a little at that and she shrugs her shoulders a little, the smile turning rueful.]}

Yeah... more'n a little.

... Now mind you, I didn't... know about any of this until I was seventeen. ... Well. Know know. I knew about it, but it was kinda... buried? _{[Repressed for her own good was a better term.]}

But it was goin' on the whooooole time and some of those people? Got preeeeetty weiiiird.