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Exalmex: "Well, if you hadn't come back, I would have searched you out as a shade, and make sure you weren't hurt. "

HSH: *Stares at Exalmex*
" We haven't known each other very long, but surely long enough to know just how independent Xene is? "

Exalmex: " Do you know how independent I was for most of my life? It doesn't matter! I didn't have a choice! There was no-one to talk to, paramite or otherwise! I can't remember how I felt back then, but i'm sure I felt a fraction of what we now feel as loneleness. "

HSH: " What do you mean, you can't remember? "