"You mean aside from the fact that, last I heard, we're still doing this dating thing, but we haven't made eye contact in almost a month? I-... Clive, I miss you. I do. But what are we doin'?" It was a fair enough question, she thought. She needed to know, plain and simple, if she even still had a boyfriend.

"I know you're not happy with me killin' Laila, or that I fought back against her cousins when they attacked me. It wasn't ideal, but it's what I had to do." And she wasn't going to apologize for it. "But you gotta tell me if that's the end of it, or if we're actually gonna keep trying this."