Kitty's eyes flutter open at those words - she is out of sorts, feeling terribly weak and like her whole head is packaged in cotton, but what the woman just said is just...

It makes so little sense that she stares up at her, or at least looks. Staring requires a bit more force than she has in her right now. Her own voice sounds thin and feeble to her when she speaks. She really must be badly off.

"I don't have a contract." No, she can't have meant that, nobody calls... "And not," she has to pause to gather strength and breath and brain, "you're mistaking me for someone else." Maybe that is it. Maybe she thinks Kitty is some sarariman's daughter who is in a megacorp's health system.

She wants help, but being picked up by some megacorp is really the last thing that she wants. People like her who aren't considered people end up in a laboratory quicker than others, and her best chance would be that she ends up with one that realizes that she is a mage and hires her instead. And when the best chance includes becoming something - a salary mage - that she definitely doesn't want it is... yeah. She'll survive somehow. Probably. Still, staying here will be better than being mistakenly picked up by a corporation.