Odd As This Might Sound, I Suppose

And He Was My Friend. Not That He Wouldn't Kill Me If Things Turned Out That Way, But He Wouldn't Like Doing It. With Humans, What More Could You Ask For A Friend?

...the Way A Man Might Hesitate Before He Kissed A Woman, To Gauge Her Reaction, To See How He Would Be Received. Perhaps He Would Hesitate To Prolong The Moment, That Ideal Moment Of Anticipation, Sometimes Better Than Kiss Itself.

No, I Had Never Intentionally Caused Anyone Physical Pain, But I Had Hurt Ian Deeply Enough Just By Hurting Myself. Human Lives Were So Impossibly Tangled. What A Mess.

Because There Was Just One Thing That I Had To Believe To Be Able To Live - I Had To Know That He Existed. That Was All. Everything Else I Could Endure. So Long As He Existed.

My Name Is Jared Howe. I Haven't Spoken To Another Human Being In More Than Two Years, So I'm Sure I Must Seem...a Little Crazy To You.