[He snorts when William makes the comment about his! mind being special, but before he can say much else about that, he's caught off guard by the question. Well, he should have expected it. It's not like he doesn't leave the picture out. He'd been more careful about it, before . . . but that felt stupid.]

—That's my cousin Kanon. Pretty cute, right? That picture . . . some stuff showed up in my apartment with me when I first got here, that happen to you? That was one of the things I found. . . . I guess CERES was tryin' to be nice or something, for once.

[He shrugs. The other items mostly had not been nice. But he's glad to have this one.]

We were pretty close. Like, not as close as she wanted, know what I mean? But she was like a sister to me!