[ As they walk further along, she ponders in silence how to answer. The lifetime she lived, the one ingrained into her memory—is an era that didn't have advanced technology, so it's difficult to put in her own words. She remembers the truth: that the people of the Cage are neither alive or dead, but live in the form of "data." If she were still in that form, she would only be able to exist within a virtual landscape or anywhere that fell in between virtual and reality. She wouldn't physically exist.

...She's whole now though, because of a favor that she asked for. And probably because she's here in Etraya. But when she returns to Earth, she will still be in a physical form as well. And possibly the only human alive... until the others can figure out a way to come back as well. ]

...It's kind of hard to explain. I'm not sure if I understand it all too well. [ She didn't exactly watch the Earth from space. For the longest time, she didn't realize her world, her story was a record kept as data within a server—a sad memory of a young human girl from many years ago when Earth still had life. ] On the moon, there's this place called the Cage. That's where I'm from. It's a place where all of humanity's memories from Earth are kept. As "data"... that's what I was told.