Steph swallows, looking down, and carries on talking, because that's what she does.

"And I figured, you know, I'm okay with that, because I want you to be who you want to be, you know, but - but you never lived all on your own, you said you had a tribe, and there's monsters in this world, and it'd been more than half a year, and - and I missed you so much. And I -"

wanted to be part of who you wanted to be, whoever that was.

"... I'm sorry."