"Yeah, so..." Arden exhaled. "So, where I come from, the supernatural community is called the Otherside. If you remember me saying that my world doesn't have a supernatural community, it's because I lied. I've done that a bunch since I showed up."

Good to get that said up front.

"Not about everything! Just anything to do with my world and the supernatural...and me. Because I'm not a regular human girl without powers. I'm not even actually human. I'm something called an elemental - a Sylph, which means I have power over the air. One of the reasons Callista adopted me was because having a baby elemental growing up in a normal human household would be really devastating for Othersider secrecy. So much of our society is based on humans not knowing we exist and what we can do, because we're tougher and more powerful than humans, but guns balance that out really quickly and humans outnumber us by a lot." Losing the plot there, Finch. "Which is all a lot of backstory to say that Callista didn't adopt me because she wanted to, so for the past decade, every dime she ever spent on me was considered a debt that I would one day become liable to pay back. And she told me that, 'It's time to pay what you owe'. Well, I would have to at eighteen, anyway. And so, I ran. Because I didn't want to spend however long indentured to her to pay back however much a decade worth of expenses plus interest would be. But, uh, considering how much of an investment that was in me, she's been searching for me. And, well, fast forward to last weekend."

A pause. "Okay that was a lot at once. I should break it down into smaller bits next time I explain this to someone."