She's quiet, for a moment. But she doesn't try to deny it, this time. "...Erin— Erin said kind of the same thing. She stuck around longer. Took the pressure off Yang for a couple years."

Not that it impacted the rest of her life, of course; that wasn't how those memories worked. But it's nice, remembering it. Bittersweet, but nice.

"He always struggled after mom went missing. He got better. Eventually. But we were already teenagers then, and— I don't know." He's her dad, and she loves him, but in many ways you could say he acted more like an older sibling than a father even when he became more present in their lives again. "...there was never anyone to help."

Remnant's support structures may as well be non-existent.