"I'll keep that in mind," Pepper says with a roll of her eyes.

She's gotten a little familiar with the compound, but it's still new enough to be interesting, and it'll probably always be weird. The only thing that's really changed is how the animals react, now that they've gotten wary of people.

"Yeah, maybe. Either that or they all picked up and left really quickly," she replies, peering around. "Or maybe it was like the terracotta warriors. Like a funeral city." Which doesn't help the creepiness factor. "There's no food here or anything. Just structures. And Cyrillic, which is extra special strange."