Yeah... it's weird, right? Especially with how behind Aldrip seems to be compared to a lot of people here.

[She casts one more look at the stuffed dog before seizing it, apparently impulsively, and holding it close. The fairies had said to take stuff, hadn't they? And she'll remember this house to return it before they go back. Just in case.]

Who do you think "they" is...? Other people living here...?

[That doesn't seem right, but she doesn't know who else it could be, either.]