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Kara listened to the story with rapt attention. Though the exact nature of events was unfamiliar to her, she recognised something of herself in the tone Armis used to talk about her friend. She tilted her head as the other girl paused near the end of her story, feeling she was missing some unspoken part of it. Or perhaps that was just her thinking about her own life and her own people?

“She sounds… nice,” she said after a short silence, even as she realised how little those words would mean in a situation like this. Of course Kara had no idea whether the hiking girl was nice or not- Lora hadn’t been a nice person at all and Kara had still cared for her. More than Lora seemed to ha- it didn’t matter.

She dug her hands into the pouch of her hoodie, feeling pretty out of her depth. She wasn’t generally good at talking to people- not in a real way anyway. Sure, she’d learned how to play along with conversations and lead people to think about her in a way that she preferred, but it felt different when she started talking about true things. Less like a fight and more like something that was actually scary.

“Sooo,” she drawled eventually, “You wanted to come here?” It felt strangely like losing to change the topic now, but she figured they would have plenty of time to talk as roommates.