[Better luck next time. Maybe if you get to know her a little better she'll tell you all about how she deserted her military and helped stage a coup to try and overthrow a corrupted government.

All in good fun, you know how it is. Right?]

I suppose I would feel similarly if I had more fond feelings towards where I was from.

[Riza shrugs just slightly, blinking.] I don't think I've ever been homesick. Not when I was a cadet and left my home town for the first time. Or when I'd first left East City. I've been here the better part of a year.

[She folds her hands behind her, gaze falling on the ground in front of her feet.]

The idea of being homesick is entirely foreign to me.