[Close. They were close. Once. Back before his death penalty, before matters had become as sad and dark and twisted as they had between her and Gale. She misses that boy, the boy she had befriended sometime after arriving here. There had been slow - very slow - steps back towards that friendship.
Steps, it turned out, that didn't move fast enough.]
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Steps, it turned out, that didn't move fast enough.]
Yeah.
[It's easier than the truth.]