"I know so," Octavia told him. Didn't mean it wasn't still complicated, even for her - but out of the two of them, she had more of a chance of pretending it wasn't, so she'd take it.

At least when he got like this.

When he wondered whether he was good.

"You've been made to feel so many things about yourself," she added, a little softer again. "So many of them completely unfair."