[Overall, Krista has been struck by the warmth and optimism of so many of her new schoolmates. She feels like she's seen more people smile at her in the last week than in all of the life she had before it.]
[So it's somewhere between jarring and bizarrely comforting to hear the pessimistic thoughts she isn't letting slip from her own lips on someone else's.]
[Instead of agreeing, though, she puts on a look of wide-eyed, if faintly apprehensive, confusion.]
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[So it's somewhere between jarring and bizarrely comforting to hear the pessimistic thoughts she isn't letting slip from her own lips on someone else's.]
[Instead of agreeing, though, she puts on a look of wide-eyed, if faintly apprehensive, confusion.]
Who would?