[She did notice the guy, so she doesn't startle this time.]

What, this? [She holds it up a little way -- enough to show that it's not actually the whole broom, just the handle. Though whether she broke it herself or found it like that is an open question.]

I've been dragged into places like this a couple of times before. First to someplace with were zombies milling around who occasionally got a craving for human flesh, then to a city that got overrun by monsters at least once a month. So when I woke up here, I figured [she shrugs] better safe than sorry.

[And she appears to be entirely serious, about the zombies and the monster invasions.]