Ashes
Ray blinked. "Gira's just a friend. She's in a normal, nondysfunctional relationship...as for caring, I care about everyone, but it's hard. It's hard to look past myself, selfish as I am. Tenacious, yes, I've had to be, but...at the moment, I'm putting up with extreme depression, multiple addictions - please don't mention that to Glacia - and it's all normal. Just another one of a million others. Symptoms. Simplicity. Everything gets simplified when you're a doctor. The fact that you were abused by the people who took the place of your parents, that they took your innocence when you were so young it's as if you never really were innocent - that means nothing but a high likelyhood of severe depression, drug and alcohol dependancy, and general anxiety disorder. And other things, too, but I think you get the point. Is it just me, or is the only person here who hasn't had to put up with a whole lot of [censored] Glacia? You've been put through a hundred deaths, I've suffered through that no child ought to, Gira's been kidnapped and suffers from memory loss caused by her kidnappers." "
Gira
"You shouldn't be so mean! Ethan's your special someone! Hey!" His nose twitched. "My awkward conversation senses are tingling!"