Mn, as long as you understand. [It's good to get confirmation.] I don't know why I become like this. It's happened before, but I never wanted to ruin a memory of someone important. Maybe deep down I wanted to be someone else, but I wouldn't want to steal an identity either.

[The words sound like a confession, yet they roll off her tongue so easily. Like talking about the weather. Kiki's inability to lie has made her as such: honest to a fault. It's not an easy life when all your secrets are laid bare on the daily, and it's made keeping friends even harder.]

...Sorry. Sitting up here makes me wonder if my father held me this way when I was young. I can't say it's nostalgic, but it's...nice in a way.

[It takes her mind off her wounds at least.]