[Rose glances back at her for a second, frowning slightly as she tries to determine the sincerity of the statement. No one had really taken to her particular(ly destructive) bent to strifing, and of course even perfunctory parental figures are rarely to be taken at face value. Was she laughing at her?]

[she relaxes anyway, shrugging slightly in a non-committal way.]

They're my strife allocation, so I keep them on me. Lucky the game or the island saw fit to return them to me when I arrived. My other game-granted abilities are far more passive in nature.