[Back home, she would be a bit more careful about saying this to an elder, but one thing she had noticed and was actually still getting used to was that the lines between ages here were somewhat more blurred than back in Japan, seeing as people came from so many different cultures and worlds. They were all people of a similar fate, and that brought them that much closer together.

Even here, her primary aim was not to scold, but to amuse herself a little. She turned her head towards the running water in front of her as she spoke.]

...I am just making sure that you and another unfortunate person do not end up clumsily falling in the river someday. Especially when it is still cold. [Given how close to it she was resting, that had certainly been a possibility with her too.]