Cho's frown is back, but it's not for her, and the noise in her head is not quite so loud this time. "I'm so sorry, that you were forgotten, that you have to remember being forgotten." It's a horrible thing, painful and unfair. No one should have to go through it.

She looks back at him, at where he's walking in her blind spot, which is how she recognizes it as her blind spot, that she has to turn to see him, nothing even in her peripheral vision. lt should be unsettling, having him back there, but it's not. The physical proximity doesn't worry her. "You know, some people say that our trials will make us stronger. Do you think that's true?"