[Honestly Peter really needed this break. Nothing is completely hopeless, it's not the end of the world, he has a cool girlfriend and people like Ben around to help him deal with shit. He's still got a lot to figure out about their current predicament, but he's starting to feel like he can handle this. It's just another hurdle to jump over, and he's real good at jumping. He's got this.

He might roll his eyes just a bit when Ben puts his hand over his heart. Come on man, you're acting like his aunt. But it's good, Peter's all grins over here.]

I-- honestly, we started as friends. I think I realized that I liked her back in Hadriel, but it was, uh. It wasn't until towards the end, and by then we were all literally gearing up to go to war and there just wasn't time for anything else. Right after that everyone started going home. I figured I was never going to see her again, y'know? So I tried not to get too attached. but-- but then she was here, and so was I, and things just kinda fell into place. And also that Cole guy was like "dude you should stop being a dumb anxious chihuahua and tell her how you feel". Only not in those words, because it's Cole.