[The coverup by people in power isn't particularly surprising - Momo has encountered similar things in his industry, though with very different stakes - and so a certain weighty understanding settles over his expression. If the only ones who know the truth refuse to admit to it, there's little point asking further after it here.

Turning his head towards the sound, children running about among the stalls, some clinging to their food offerings, his gaze slips towards her again at that admission.]

Have they told you if it progresses while you're here? [It'd be even more of an ask for her than others here, if that time she has left with her children is burned here before she can return to her world.] It's not fair regardless, but if they knew about it when they brought you...

[If it does continue, that's getting into callous territory.]