[For better or worse,a good number of them are very secretive, self-conscious and/or scared! Alas, the first Crossing drove plenty of closely guarded secrets out into the open already... only for those who harboured them to lose all recollection of them. It's quite the peculiar situation.

Frieda let's out another laugh that's half amused, half strained.]

I suppose so! For what it's worth, I still pretend to sleep sometimes. I just lie down in an empty shelter and close my eyes for a while.

[Otherwise, wouldn't she feel like going insane? She wonders if not sleeping anymore will ever start feeling normal.]