"Maybe they just don't have lives that need to continue running the way real people do." She picks Nel up and moves both of them over to the porch, sitting down there.

Maybe talking about it will get it out of her head. And it's not like it's a great terrible thing. Probably. Maybe. She'll leave out the parts that could be (the worries that she has about what it could mean in loss of control). Instead, she'll focus on everything else.

"...I think this person that ...I'm getting parts of. I think she was a werewolf." And that just sounds so ridiculous. It's somehow easier when, like Nel, there seems to be no rhyme and reason to it that would neatly affiliate with a concept that strong in pop culture.