Yeah, I know Needy. We're -- we're not tight, but I guess we're friends. [ She was hesitant to give anyone that title anymore. Things with Stephanie had made friendship an intensely complicated concept ] Think you're getting a little carried away, there, though.

[ She wants to say Kipak's just a stuffed bear because that's the truth, but she'd invoked him as talisman to attempt to be normal, to be Teenage Girl: Secretly Aged 11, apparently. ]

[ She's still not sure how to feel about how things went. ]