Who Needs a Dream? Who Needs Ambition?

"Yeah, it just worked out that way, I guess. Remember, Robin is the normal one of the bunch, as far as that goes. Cissie might qualify, but she had a stage mom for a parent, which makes that hard," Bart said, thinking about it. Some things didn't change. "But it's hard to think of her in that light, since she got out so cleanly. I hadn't talked to her in ages before she showed up here, my timeline."

He still felt a little bad about that. He'd left her alone because that was what she'd wanted, but that had left their friendship behind, too. It distracted him a bit from the game. "I always envied her strength, too."