[ "but I genuinely do enjoy your company and want to keep you close. That isn't something that I really experience toward most people." ... "It seems strange to say that I appreciate doing things that don't have any particular purpose behind them with you"

Honestly, those words, and the dozens and dozens of others, that little diary she got - she hadn't read it the day it arrived. Toushiro's, Silver's, Jaegers all arrived at the same time and all of them were shorter and there was a lot going on. But she'd read it the next day, and in the afterglow of the conflict, it made her feel warm, despite the implication they were breaking up, mirroring the message that she sent him.

That they could make that understanding happen was... honestly it was nice.

And she nods. ]

I'd figured... that it was the sort of sincerity you wouldn't have afforded other people back then, I mean. I have always worried about your ability to make friends, but I know I'm one to talk and there's no need to be overbearing.

[ ... ]

I appreciated them, though. I did.