[Oh, she's satisfied. After taking a seat herself and carefully sipping from the cup, she smiles faintly. She was thirstier than she thought.

Richard's following remark catches her a bit off-guard, though.]

That's... It was the same thing thing that happened to you, I assume. We dealt with the monsters that were still roaming freely and evolving. [She doesn't want to say too much, though, in the offchance that Richard didn't see the end of that second journey.]