The truth is, Rosita isn't interested in being a social experiment, and she isn't interested in being poked at for some stranger's satisfaction. She would not have entertained this conversation for anything other than a defense mechanism when they first met.

But she and Astarion are closer now. They're more to each other, she hopes, now.

"Well - the relevant part of it... is that the virus itself was making things worse for weeks. For months. But the world I came from is kind of like the one we just left, just not as advanced: most people kind of never expected that anything too bad would happen. Most people didn't think there was much that could completely disrupt their way of life. And when we hit that tipping point, it went fast."