Komorebi

[Mel Rose]

She stopped for a moment, sensing that Olivia seemed somehow more passionate about this question than any other one in their conversation up until now. She wondered if the interest was somehow tied to her having shot down Sable's girlfriend's ship multiple times in the past. And indeed Olivia's own, too, once. Perhaps that somehow influenced the junior devil's opinion on the matter as well.

"Depends on what you mean," she finally spoke. "Someone wiser than me once said that no man is an island. It takes a very specific disposition and mental state to live away from any kind of human connection without permanent discontent, and people with that sort of disposition tend to be psychopaths. We all are going to die some day, we will not drag our friends along into the next life, we will have to say goodbye sooner or later. That's not a reason to avoid making personal connections entirely."

She also thought that one should make friends first and foremost with people who can take care of themselves, but she opted to leave that opinion unsaid for the time being.

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