Louise looks down at the child in her arms, raising an arm a bit to run her fingers over the smooth rocky scales where Stone should see the child's back. Lottie will likely not feel it, but it does calm her down, and that will only benefit both of them.

"No." She shakes her head at length. "I cannot. It's not my answer to give." In more ways than one. Even in a place like this, or perhaps especially here, it is much too dangerous to admit to them not being regular humans. "All I can say is that... for a while, she wasn't in a good place, and not with people that had her best interest in mind." She is still looking down at Lottie as she speaks, her arm resting still around the child once more. "As you probably already guessed. We took her away from there as soon as we found out." As soon as she found out that Lottie existed, but that is a whole other story, and certainly something that she will not get into.