Aye. It's not like she thinks my situation back home is any good. I think she just wants to protect me from getting hurt when I lose things, and since I will lose them, there's nothing else she can do.

I feel disconnected though, eh? I don't know how to explain that it's worse to not have these things at all than to lose them.

[Rubs the back of his neck.] Well, maybe I do now.