I frowned. On the one hand, I knew Rei. Very well, all things considered. She didn't like strangers. She definitely didn't like male strangers. I wasn't really a stranger, not anymore, and she liked that least of all, because of how it had happened.
On the other hand, I knew Rei. Her friends, her fellow... cosmic whatchamacallits... were everything. They were all she had. There had been two. One was home. One was AWOL.
She had nobody, right now. Nobody she wanted.
"... If there's any way I can help, let me know, yeah?"
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I frowned. On the one hand, I knew Rei. Very well, all things considered. She didn't like strangers. She definitely didn't like male strangers. I wasn't really a stranger, not anymore, and she liked that least of all, because of how it had happened.
On the other hand, I knew Rei. Her friends, her fellow... cosmic whatchamacallits... were everything. They were all she had. There had been two. One was home. One was AWOL.
She had nobody, right now. Nobody she wanted.
"... If there's any way I can help, let me know, yeah?"