[Emily nods, and sips her water before she continues, hand lifting off the metal.]

...This isn't the first strange place I've been thrust into without understanding the mechanisms. You could consider me twice removed from where I was born - that's important, to understand this. The mask came to me before I found my footing here, and after I was brought to it there. It's...you could call it, perhaps, a lifeline. Both for me and for the other that resides inside my body.