He looked up to the sight of her with hair loose and wet, and somehow this squeezed his heart as much as anything else that day. It felt unguarded, and he felt so grateful.

'He' what? …Oh, right. "No, no trouble. He's helping me study." Cassian scratched under Beany's chin and was rewarded with a purr. Cats made more sense to him than dogs. He couldn't help wondering if this was a difference between him and former-him, or if this had still been true but Sprinkles had chosen him regardless.