Her eyebrows arch up high on her forehead at the biting return, and Emma steadily raises her hands in a passing gesture of surrender—no hard feelings, but it’s clear that Bader’s sharp intolerance for the phrasing comes across. Tilting her head a bit, Emma turns on her heels and starts down the stairs to follow Bader’s invitation into the kitchen.

“How long have you been living here?” Clearly long enough to get familiar with the roommate situation, at least. Whether that means Emma gets to throw herself into an already-established environment that she’ll be at odds with (again) remains to be seen, but even if that’s the case, it’s no harder than any group home or foster family that she’d been packed in with during her youth.