[One look at his skin tight clothes and she wanted to say yes, but at the same time...

Everything else about him just made sense.]

No, not really.

[Because once he's said it, she can see it. The way he listens without judgement, the soft reassurance, the gentle warmth she feels from him. All of it makes so much sense.]

Well you must be really good at it, being raised that way doesn't mean you don't have some natural talent for it. Is Eiden your boyfriend? Or just a friend?

[In spite of the wording it was an honest question. 'It was all I knew, until I met them' felt so achingly familiar. That one chance meeting that completely reorients your life as the world shifts so drastically beneath your feet that you can't imagine going on without someone.

Okay so maybe she was thinking more of her home and friends, but somehow she thinks it might apply to Olivine too.]

Yeah. At least until we can figure out how to make it fair.