BETTER. [better meaning no one knows who you are here besides those at Garden. You have a clean slate.]

[She feels like it's coming close to one of those times she talks fully again. She waits a few ticks and instead sticks to her one word answers.] STAYING.

[She gives a small smile, hoping he sees it for what it is. An invitation to be her bestfriend despite all that. She isn't holding the past to him, it's done and what they couldn't fix? She's not bothering with it.] DOES. [It does matter.]