Traumatized for life? [ Aranea parrots the phrase back to the man she’d definitely never would have thought would ever become her client. ] Spare the hyperbole. My story may be a bit… risque, but I haven’t gotten away with murder.

[ It’s rare, but there are those moments when Aranea indulges sentiment. Because she’s been expecting this, she’s not particularly arrested, but she offers something, which is better than nothing. ]

Never thought of them as nightmares. I only felt fear when that lady would leave me. But, whatever. I was a weird kid.

[ At his question about if these dreams continued, she actually smirks. ] Nah. My dreams grew up with me.