Friends didn't help before, she almost says. Melanie (though how much Melanie considered any of them her friends, she's not sure), Basira (that complicated mess of a relationship), even Jon (two monsters can understand and even comfort each other, but they can't fix each other)—none of it helped, in the end (and yet still she misses them so much it burns).

"...guess so," she mutters instead, with a sigh. "Some."