[ It was weird, for reasons Loop has decided to keep for themselves, and will continue to do exactly that. Given they don't really elaborate too much on it and opting to reply to that later comment. Ignoring the spike of that ugly feeling at how easy it apparently has been here. ]

It is different here. [ They'll give them that. ] But I'm not necessarily here to make friends! There's no point in doing so. Not when eventually we'll go back and they'll simply all forget, the rest of them moving on with their own lives!

[ So why go through the trouble of something unnecessary? ]