It's late in the gathering, when she arrives.

She barely looks like herself. Dressed in the simple outfit supplied upon arrival, with the addition of only a plain patch over her empty socket, her silhouette is wrong. But it's not just that. It's the way she's holding herself. It's how lost she seems. It's how dim the light behind her eye is. It's... a lot of little things.

But she's here. Despite everything, she's here. And so, it seems, are people she knows.

Familiar faces, all around. Faces she saw not all that long ago but that feel like they're from another time all the same. Most of them people she doesn't approach. Most of them too close to strangers to feel safe.

But not all of them.

Ruby still hesitates. But, eventually, this familiar-and-yet-wrong figure steps up to Erin, and just asks, "...is it really you?"