[ Ben giggles helplessly when she says Kieran doesn't smell great because that's just where his sense of humor is at right now. ]

Oh, okay. That makes sense. Wouldn't've mattered really 'cause I never had any friends before I came here.

[ There were his siblings, of course, and Ben loves them, but that is a different sort of relationship. He hadn't known anyone who liked him enough to spend time with him just because. Then again, it wasn't that everyone had rejected him, but that he'd never had a chance to form a bond with anyone outside his home. He and his brothers and sisters weren't allowed out. They were monitored at all times, kept busy with training. When would he have made a friend, even with a computer? ]

What's a meme?

[ Right on the landmine. ]