I did not move from anywhere. [Smiles faintly] This city is home. [Everything, everyone, she knows, is here. That by itself makes it easy enough to claim the city as home.]
[Funny, he could have sworn she’d said she’d only lived here for the last five months. But, maybe he misheard – he decides not to press the issue for the moment, since she seems nice.] I know what you mean. I was, heh [embarrassed as he remembers] very shy w-when I first came here. B-but then I met my fiancee, and she’s helped me to get out more.
[He has someone that’s helping him, good to hear.] That’s… it is not so different from myself, I… if it was not for the support of someone important to me, I wouldn’t [Bites her lower lip] I do not know if I would be here.
[His heart goes out to her now, seeing how deeply this affects her.] Th-that sounds really sweet. [Hesitates, considering something. This is still a very alien thing for him to do, but he wants to.] And y-you seem really nice, Veda. [Swallows] M-m-maybe we could, um, h-hang out sometime? You could meet Katelynn; I think you two would like each other. [And he’d like to have more friends, and for Katelynn to have more friends who aren’t scary superpowered people]
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