[Riz had known Rainer too, and yet it hadn't hit him as hard when she had gone home. Maybe it was because while she carried a certain sense of familiarity --being one of the few other people who seemed to come from a world like his-- in the end, she felt mostly like someone he could've gone to school with, someone who could've fitted in so easily at Aeguefort.

Boober though. Boober was weird and anxious and liked odd things that nobody else liked and Riz had felt a kinship with him; the kind of kinship that can only exist between two people at the edges of any friend group, always slightly out of step with everybody else.]

Nothing. I guess. I guess I just wanted to make sure you were still here.

Which is stupid, isn't? We should be happy for anyone who manages to find their way home.