"Thank you," she said with a nod before turning to go to the desk and gather up the books she'd been studying.

"It's not exactly my ideal retirement plan," she continued, trying to make a joke out of what would probably be the worst case scenario for her, and one of the more likely ones in her opinion. "But at least I'd never run out of people to talk to. There's over two hundred of them hanging out in my head. Some of them aren't too pleasant, but most aren't so bad."

It wasn't the same as having real people around, but she'd lived most of her life in relative isolation. This would just be... a new challenge. If it came down to it.