It's a careful word choice. Not to say she needs it, not to presume that much, but the offer extended all the same as coming from a friend. While Fever doubts that many of the ones she knows have come through would hold such grudges, the probability is never precisely zero. That, and she'd be a right hypocrite to proclaim that when she still holds her own bitterness.
"You may have taken everything on your head, but not a soul could find anything amiss in a friend standing for a friend."
Her own part in the launch, she still wants to bury. Until there's time to gauge how badly this might harm any idea of connection.
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It's a careful word choice. Not to say she needs it, not to presume that much, but the offer extended all the same as coming from a friend. While Fever doubts that many of the ones she knows have come through would hold such grudges, the probability is never precisely zero. That, and she'd be a right hypocrite to proclaim that when she still holds her own bitterness.
"You may have taken everything on your head, but not a soul could find anything amiss in a friend standing for a friend."
Her own part in the launch, she still wants to bury. Until there's time to gauge how badly this might harm any idea of connection.