Since he didn't have his arm around her anymore Nariko sat on the end of her bed, ignoring Sonia's disdainful whining.

"I know all of that," Not in an 'I know that so why are you wasting time repeating it' manner, it was more along the lines of 'I know that very well and you probably needed to say it to me'. "I thought that stepping out of it might help you as much as it would him. Maybe it's easier to fix whatever is between you and Roland if there isn't some random woman in the way, I don't know. Relationships are weird. Though, for the record, Susan isn't doing anything to me. It's not really anyone's fault that he and I don't fit together, that I can't get him to do what it is you need him to."

Fuck's sake, she wanted to cry again. "And if that was an answer it was a strange one."