Rikku shook her head. "I don't think I did," she said. "I'll remember that. I kinda like classes like that, you know?"

Words were handy. It was way better now that they were using them, instead of walling off at each other.

"I think it's ..." Rikku bit her lip. "Sometimes, when you're up and other people are asleep, it's kinda ... it feels like you're the only one alive in the whole world. And you can't go bother anybody or go take a walk or any number of things, 'cause it's 3 am, and so it kinda starts ... looping around on itself all strange. You start thinking weird things and can't stop."