"Oh!" Reno got it now, seeing the disappointment. A couple of times, he must have had the same disappointment with a few people, but he couldn't really fault 'em. They were just from different places. "Yeah. There's a lot of these kinda places that suck people up from alternate universes. If you knew a me there, probably not all that different from me here." Maybe. Rusty's memory was still fresh, and he didn't think it'd be any time soon before he could let go of that.

"Hey, don't think of it like that, kiddo. In this place, ya need all the friends you can get." He was trying to cheer her up; he'd seen that disappointment far too often to really say no to a new friend.