"This is how you hug your friends," he affirms. She's so tiny, compared to him now, and he's not even all that big. She's just skin and bones and metal, and just... tiny.

It's kind of hard to believe it's really the girl who befriended him when he arrived, a version of the girl who sacrificed her dream self to save a boy she hardly knew.

He can't decide if he wants to say anything right now, he's a little afraid he'll set her off, say the wrong thing. He'll just hold her, for right now.