As much as she'd hated it here before, Pidge wasn't terribly worried. She'd found a way to get by the last time, and there was no doubt that she'd be able to do the same. Sure, things were different this time around, but she was adaptable. Hadn't she proven that already?

He seemed pretty real, though. She couldn't remember a single time when the city had given people hallucinations of people from home. And honestly, she probably wasn't important enough for the people in charge to make an exception.

"You weren't here before. I looked every month." Which was probably a dumb thing to admit, but whatever. It wasn't exactly a secret. As for the cookies, though...

"I was hungry?" Some things just weren't that deep. "Don't worry, I know the city never does anything nice without some kind of ulterior motive. I was just uh... assuming hallucinations were the side effect."