"So who's the --" and the word she uses is in a language less than a dozen people on Earth know, so Tommy can't be expected to have any idea what it is. "How did they do this to you..." And, with a mournful expression, she remembers a few of the stories for getting humans into the wildways circuit ... "Did you sign something? You never sign anything an interdimensional creature hands you, Tommy." Yes, the girl who's only just met him is almost teary-eyed. "But there's always a way out, somehow."