"She probably wouldn't think of herself as that, but yeah." He can't deny that's what he's thought of her as, for a long time. "Her name is Kata. She's 21, and last I heard, she's with Merrin, yeah. We did kind of raise her together, but a lot of others were involved too. She had a lot of people looking out for her."

All she'd wanted was to not be alone, and they'd made sure she never would be.