[She starts to say something, then shuts her mouth. This wasn't permanent. She tried to hold onto it, built her little family anew, and this time it worked. She had Crowley who didn't coddle or manipulate her, Elaine who understood, Ahiru who let her be herself, and Tim who gave her some sort of bizarre hope for the future. Throw Iroh in as the wise mentor she had in Father Tomas and her life made sense again.

But it's not real. Instead of even thinking on it further, she looks down at her feet.] It sucks, because when I go home, I'll be back to carving my name into the Eastern Seaboard, and I won't even know how satisfying it really ought to be.

[It takes her a half second to realize she doesn't want to think of that either, because she worked too hard to be better to be back at Square One.]

But I guess nothing's really changed, except now we know no one's going to help us and you knew that already.