Vette glanced up. Looked quietly at her for a few long moments.

"You know... that's not what you are here, right? You're... you're in the same position as the rest of us, kind of. The school put us on equal ground, anyway."

Not completely equal. Some of them still couldn't get home. Couldn't hope to take their friends on trips like this, for example. But so far as their place as students went?

"We're not friends because you're an orphan or in spite of it. That doesn't matter. We're friends because you're Nina."