[ A long pause, looking down to focus on coating one of her rocks with paint. ]

He could be real in some worlds, I think.

[ Maybe not hers if Santa didn't visit. (Or maybe she really wasn't good enough...) She won't deny his existence. This woman sounds like the kind of person that would deny the existence of dream eating monster friends... ]

...Getting presents from the people I care about is nice. [ Friends. Family. Which isn't often. She's used to getting by on very little or receiving nothing at all on special occasions, especially coming from a poor family. ] But no one has to give me anything. I just like spending time with others.