She glances back at him awkwardly for a moment, one hand coming up to play with the ends of her hair as she tries to figure out the most delicate way to put it. There isn't really an easy way to explain that you're dead without it being as tragic as it was, but what can you do?

"Because before I got here I was drowning." In a fountain in a park, held down by a megalomaniac who wanted her son to pay for Klaus's wanting what he had no right to take. "I don't think that there would be a point to me going back."