It's okay to be upset about it, you know?

[She looks down, considering carefully before she speaks. When she does, it's as casual as she can make it; if humor is Steph's defense mechanism, hers is pretending things like this don't really bother her.]

Well, we met in the last world I was in, and we were both there for a long time, enough to get pretty close. Close enough for adoption and stuff. I'd never had a family before, so it was pretty nice.