Third person passive? hmmm, there's no real right answer here. You're going to have to develop a style for Horo when she's in those "storytelling" moods like that.
The flirtiness vanishes when her melancholy seeps out.
EDIT: the remainder and continuation of the translation discussion was separated into its own thread by Skyfall (thanks!). Further translation hair-pulling should occur there whilst this thread returns to story content chatting.
Thanks for the thread sorting, Skyfall. Yeah, we're talking about the light novels story but with all the varying skills in reading Japanese, the plotline discussion quickly diverged into "what did that sentence mean?" 