You didn't hear it from me, but an acquaintance and I think it might just be some experiment.

( For... things she's cautious enough around nobodies not to discuss, unlike some people with no filter. )

Drop us in a new place with a bunch of people we don't know and maybe a handful we do, invite us to ask questions, give us a little party to drop our guards... ( She sounds criminally carefree about it though, despite the conspiratorial whisper, and if this were video he'd be able to see her shrug a shoulder. ) And the next party, they'll drop some kind of monster on us and see if we manage to survive.

( With those bonds they formed, or whatever. Kromer can take things on her own so she doesn't need that— )

Doesn't sound too crazy, does it?