Daine would have winced at that question once, and the urge is still there. The 'why' of it all is a mystery to her, and not one she much cares to air. She doesn't know why the city gave her an apartment instead of sending her there, though she is grateful. She also doesn't know how to explain it without making it sound horribly unfair, because it is.

But she hasn't lived at Ocean View for some time, now. Really, the apartment needn't come up at all. "Because I live out here, in a farmhouse with some other folk. Biffy and Lyall are my guardians." It's the technical term more than the right one, but she doesn't want to put Jamie off by calling them 'Pack.'

"Though even that seems strange, often as not. Seventeen's a bit old to have folk treat you like a child. Like you need guarding." She wrinkles her nose, making no attempt to hide her feelings on that matter. Granted, folk her age in Darrow often act as if they might as well be children, but she suspects it's because no one expects better of them, not because they can't help themselves.