I got a lot of people I like. I mean it; I got more friends here and more people who really care for me than I ever had anywhere else. And I don't play favorites so much. But the people I really, really love are Merlin--
[Merlin, whose name she says automatically, and probably will for a while. Her breath catches for a moment, but then she continues on.]
-- Iris, Simon, Mason, and Dillon. And I kind of took 'em in right from the beginning, and never really thought about doing the same with anyone else. But now I'm thinking that might've been a mistake, because if you don't let anyone new into your group then it's only gonna get smaller if people go, and I don't want that.
[She doesn't actually want any of them to leave either, but she knows that that's inevitable to some extent. Maybe not for all of them, but for some.]
I dunno. If you wanna ask about any of 'em as, you know, individuals - you can. I always got stuff to say.
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I got a lot of people I like. I mean it; I got more friends here and more people who really care for me than I ever had anywhere else. And I don't play favorites so much. But the people I really, really love are Merlin--
[Merlin, whose name she says automatically, and probably will for a while. Her breath catches for a moment, but then she continues on.]
-- Iris, Simon, Mason, and Dillon. And I kind of took 'em in right from the beginning, and never really thought about doing the same with anyone else. But now I'm thinking that might've been a mistake, because if you don't let anyone new into your group then it's only gonna get smaller if people go, and I don't want that.
[She doesn't actually want any of them to leave either, but she knows that that's inevitable to some extent. Maybe not for all of them, but for some.]
I dunno. If you wanna ask about any of 'em as, you know, individuals - you can. I always got stuff to say.