Mai shouldn't have been surprised when Serah skirtted around her question about the casualties of war. For her, it was just another fact of life.

But Mai respected Serah's wishes not to talk about it. Sooner or later, she'd hear about it from someone though.

Still, she was surprised that she was asking about her relationship with Jake and not about what he was talking about in terms of her "condition".

"...well...I'm sure that's the reason he transfered here. But remember. He's with the "Recon" division. For them, it's all about information warefare. Their job's may sound like the...well "crap" work but in this war with the Cruxi, it now actually means something...they always like using new stuff against us so...kind of his job to help analyze such enemy units, weapons and such", Mai said, actually sounding normal for a change.

Mai looked at Jake in line with the other random members of the base in the cafeteria and noted that he may be there for awhile.

She then looked back at Serah.

"...Serah...you should know...I'm not exactly "normal"...didn't you even question what Jake was talking about when he briefly metioned my "condition"...or for that matter, why I'm not talking all serious or drone-like right now?", Mai then asked.