Thanks. I'm happy too.

_{[But she can sense the melancholy as well, so she adds, in a softer tone--]}

Not everybody stays here a long time like I have.

Plenty of people only stay for a bit and then they go home like nothing ever happened.

_{[It's something that always makes her throat tighten at the thought of it... but to people who are scared and have things to go back to, it's the most reassuring truth Heather can impart.]}