[ She has never defined love, friendship or otherwise. It's complicated. Maybe she has been afraid to have answers—they'd spoken about it once before, how much more frightening it is to risk rejection. Vira is tired of being alone, and she is tired of being left behind, but to solve one is to risk the other.

So she has never known quite how to proceed with them. ]

Good. ...I want you to be free to find happiness, whatever that may mean to you, and wherever you need to go to search for it.