[While he made to look at the halls, she opened the bathroom door and started to kneel down and inspect everything. The feel of stiffness was spreading, but she was keeping her calm.]

I don't think you ever mentioned being in an orphanage before. I can't imagine that the trolls wouldn't be much more fascinating in their own odd way.

[As she said that, she had no way of knowing that that should have been the sort of detail she would have known about him, had they been from the same point in time.]