[She's never really broken down before. Hard to tell if she even knows how.]

I survived, [Zero says simply.] I suffered countless atrocities at their hands, yet I do not dwell on it. There is no point. I cannot undo the pain with revenge, nor can I reclaim my missing years. Even my name has been lost to me... I am wholly someone else.

Still, I should explain.

[She looks down at the waiting piece of archon loaf.]

When I contacted you, I was unsure of your intentions. I thought perhaps you had followed me thus far and intended to drag me back into captivity after all these years. It is obvious now that I was gravely mistaken, but I'll not deny that my actions were reckless, and came from a place of... fear, perhaps.

[She says it like she isn't sure, because she... isn't. She thought she discarded fear like everything else.]

Now that all has been revealed, and I am not being pursued like I thought... I have to decide what freedom means for myself. [a beat] Living among people is more difficult than I anticipated.

[With that stellar observation out of the way, she picks her food off her plate like one would a piece of toast, and takes a bite of the cursed soylent bread. She might not be human. Though she's also already hinted at that, to be fair.]