Echo stumbled over herself a bit and laughed a bit awkwardly. 

"Gravity is weird," Echo said, somewhat randomly. "What do you think about gravity?" 

"Yea, like planets and stuff!" Echo nodded. 

"Whoa..." Echo looked to go into thought. "I never really thought about it that way!" 

Echo nodded. 

Echo looked up at the sky, wondering when the rain would let up. It looked like it would be a while. Hmm. 

 

"Yea... thank you for letting me use it... but are you sure you don't need it more? I mean, like, uhm, well, uh-" 

Echo looked very worried now. 

"M-maybe you should use it to dry off," Echo said. "Aren't you cold? Oh gods, uhm-" 

She started to take the shawl off, a clear look of sudden anxiety showing on her face. 

It was easy to tell that Echo's uneasiness wouldn't go away, but she paused from taking the shawl off. There was some kind of apprehension visble in her expression, and the way she nervously tugged at her thumbs and fingers was somewhat unhappily and nervous. 

She didn't say anything and looked at the ground, trying to figure out what to say. Instead of some explanation, an apology fumbled out. 

"Sorry."  

Echo wasn't sure if she was doing something wrong, and she couldn't remember anything about Germaine, so her mind was making assumptions based off of any and every emotion that hit first. Maybe her memories were gone but certain words seemed to trigger emotions and materialized thoughts, and even if Echo couldn't figure out how they were linked, it was the only thing she could trust to listen to at the moment. Her gut felt uneasy, like maybe she had messed up. She had misheard one of Germain's sentences as sarcasm, and so Echo was panicking to do something right. 
 

Echo nervously looked back up. 

"Are... uhm, are you sure?" 

"Oh...okay." 

A bit of the nervousness left from her expression. 

The rain is starting to slow a bit, but not by much. It might go on for a long while. 

(It's okay lol, don't stress about it! ^v^) 

Echo's eyes lit up, very clear excitement for (what the Narrator remembers) the first time during this interaction. 

"Y-yea! They live with me and Pa- Alma!" Echo tripped over her words in a childish, excited rush as she tried to get her sentence out. 

"Polina is getting bigger, still a baby though! They both get along really well with Alma's puppies! We took them to the vet the other day! I don't think the vet is very used to those kind of cats though. He said they were healthy! Which is really good! They like to follow me a lot, but today Francis is taking care of them because he wanted to do a painting of them. Have you met Francis? He's nice! Anyway, cats!" 

She didn't seem to take any breath while saying all of that but instead had rambled it all out in pure excitement to be talking about the lavender felines. 

Echo nodded then excitedly asked, "Do you have any pets?" 

Echo was starry-eyed. 

"So cool! That's a lot of animals, right?! Do they all have names?"