"You never had a family," she said, waving a hand dismissively and watching Mako chew on a stray sock. Which meant she wasn't looking at Reno. Coincidence. Really. "I can't imagine what that's like. It's not ..."

She let out a frustrated wordless noise. "This isn't Top That or my pain outranks yours or yours outranks mine or ... Jude once ... got all messed up 'cause some people at this school near his got killed and he was all, hey, I shouldn't be moping to you about it because you lost way more than that and ... it doesn't work like that. I told him. He was hurting, so I wanted to know about it. I wanted to help. That's ... I don't know. Maybe I'm weird."