[in a lot of ways, she's chosen a similar life. it's why she has the job she does--and why she puts all her time into it, even getting involved in alien cases when she has a day off. but the mess with the candy wasn't easy--mainly because there wasn't a damn thing she could do to fix it herself. if she'd tried, she just would have been putting everyone unlucky enough to get near her in danger. and while she's well aware Riku will probably never tell her what it took for him to get that apple for her, she knows something awful happened to him then. and between that and the man who died before she worked out what was happening, she still has a lot of unresolved guilt]

[but you get used to it] Ah, it wasn't one of the timed ones. They gave us a couple ways to get out of it. First, they told us that anybody who died would go back to normal. [her lips twist into a scowl] Dunno if anybody took 'em up on that, but soon after, they let us know there was actually something in the shop that could fix it. [she's still calm as she explains, but her expression is dark] I didn't get to see that part myself, but I bet you can guess the chances that they just let people walk in and back out with the antidote.