[it's very gracious that she's pretending. don't worry, Lina's going to keep this chaste. she just... they're talking about being close to people, right? they're talking about knowing each other. maybe it would help Vera? she doesn't know.]

That's what the other me did. The one who originally roomed with Jen, when I first got to know her. And I was just lucky enough to live with someone, you know? Once she and I started being friends, it made all the... weirdness a lot easier to deal with. It made it easy to know that there would be someone else there, who was also on the app, whenever I woke up.

[she keeps up her kind, sweet smile even though Vera's eyes are closed.]