"...Okay, yeah, I can see where that'd leave you feeling kinda 'and then there's this asshole.'" She vaguely remembers Claire feeling similarly - only vaguely, because she was seven when everything went to shit, but Joshua was already tearing up his physics classes and Claudia's been fixing computers since she was about five. Between the two of them, she can see where Claire might've felt left out.

"But that doesn't mean you're not interesting. And who knows, maybe they just wanted to put more space between you and your mom, since from what you've said she's a piece of work."