[The way he smiles? Again he looks so confused. So very confused. He's not even looking at the device anymore, because he's trying to think about what she means. It's a long moment before he responds.]

We're friends, Rin. That's all we are. We do friend things like I teach him how to fight and he tells me stories and we danced together a lot of the night at the ball. The guy can tango so well.

[The problem, of course, is that the more he talks about Billy, the more that smile creeps back on his face.]

Like, I'm not even kidding. I may not have had top marks in a lot of Garden classes, but dancing? I was top there. And he's leagues ahead of me. We spent the last bit of the year together in that Garden place. We did the whole Trabian New Year thing. The one where you tell a deep secret to a stranger to make your burdens lighter the next year? I think it really worked for us. He needed to get some things off his chest, and he even managed it without squeezing my hand off while he was telling me.

[Yes. That was just Nida mentioning he spent time, alone with Billy, in a romantic location, telling each other secrets and holding hands. Truly he doesn't even get what is going on in his own heart.]