The caves surrounding the city are dark enough, I bet, but the monsters in there... [ She gives a shake of her head. The variety in the caves really means few things can survive in them long, not even the people of the city. ] There's some bad things in there.

[ And such cute ugly things don't deserve to go out the way some of the monsters in there would take them. A pause. She's great at taking conversations down dark roads. ]

I'm, uh, Sharon, by the way. I know Cecily, from your world. [ She's a friend, she means. ]