It's quite all right. I doubt you would have heard of Fontaine. Most here haven't. Things are rather....different here, from what you might be used to.

( he offers her a smile, meant to come off as reassuring but maybe it just comes off creepy instead? he has no real practice in soothing others, after all.

but maybe now is not the right time to start waxing poetic about timelines and worlds and all sorts of other things that would have more place in a literary work of fantasy than out in reality. especially when she's still trying to adjust.

the whistle sounds shrilly again outside; he pays it no mind. )

I'm afraid I don't know who's in charge, however. I only arrived myself a mere two months ago. ( sorry, they're (mostly) in the same boat. ) But I suspect whoever it is in charge has no real interest in hearing out our grievances, else they would not have brought us here so forcefully to begin with.