Argh, Natsuno, please! How can you reply to her sarcastic quips with sincerity, huh? Where in the handbook of dealing with emo teens is that allowed?

Alice has absolutely no idea how to reply to that, so.. you know what? She's just going to put this topic right over there in the corner with all the other topics she'll never talk about again. Sounds great to her.

Especially since it means she can focus on the latter part.

"I don't think it has much to do with being smart necessarily." She shakes her head, thinking. "If research or something like that would take us out of here, I'm sure we would have been gone a long time ago." There are most likely some smart people on the train, right? .. right? Alice doesn't know, she isn't social enough for it.

"This place makes very little sense. I don't think logic would get anyone anywhere."