[No one yet had stopped to really ask her that question. A question she had an answer to, even if she really didn't want to admit it aloud. Pushing people away meant keeping herself safe. Meant keeping herself from losing friends - family as some had become - to their home worlds. Meant keeping her heart from being broken all over again.
And more than that? If she ever got involved in any sort of uprising ever again? Pushing people away meant keeping them safe.]
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And more than that? If she ever got involved in any sort of uprising ever again? Pushing people away meant keeping them safe.]
...it's easier.