...Wow. You say it so fancy and romantic!

[Maya chimes in adoration, grinning ear to ear as she scritches Queenie's ears in turn.]

I think I get what you mean, though. Like, everyone's lives can already be so bad here— why do your best to be part of the problem, right?

Even the meanest people here, there's a part of them meant to be cared about by someone.

[She'd forgotten that, a little, in her anger as a Shade— but Rachel and Daniel had reminded her that even Aunamee was fit for someone to love.]

...That's really nice.