Alice may have accidentally imparted some entirely wrong implications upon the girl..

But they're implications she's entirely unaware of right now. Instead she just nods slightly at the question. It's not a time she likes thinking about. Even though she remembers so very little of it, with how in and out of it she had been the whole time, she doesn't like the little flashes she remembers of pain and heat and so many faces she didn't recognize.

"They treated me for it in the hospital." And then promptly shipped her off to the asylum. Even worse. "But I-- I don't want that again."

The first time had been traumatizing enough, as young as she had been.